George W. Bush Quotes

One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life.

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.

Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.

Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.

Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death similar to the one you are grieving.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

I know how it feels to lose.

I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.

I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.

I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.