Kerry Kennedy Quotes

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

When you lose someone, their memory lives on.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he's very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell. But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, 'Michael, I'll never leave you. You'll never leave me.'

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.

I think when we lose somebody, when we interact with those things that they also loved - like, you listen to their favorite music, or you read their favorite books - it's just a way to get in touch with them and your memories of them.

When someone important to you, someone that's played a big role in your life, when they're gone... When you write about them or pay tribute to them, you want to do it in a way that's thoughtful.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.

My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.

There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.

Every year I do a song for my homeboy Valley, who passed away from a heart attack.