Jim Bishop Quotes

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

My son died for lies.

When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.

When he died, he took a big piece of me with him. I'm sure that every time I do something, I'll think about having done it with Hef.

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel on ones we knew and loved Praise to life though its windows blew shut on the breathing-room of ones we knew and loved Praise to life though ones we knew and loved loved it badly, too well, and not enough Praise to life though it tightened like a knot on the hearts of ones we thought we knew loved us Praise to life giving room and reason to ones we knew and loved who felt unpraisable. Praise to them, how they loved it, when they could.

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

That's the one thing you wake up with every day: How long have I got left? And that's the saddest thing in the world, because you have this absolute realization that everything you love you're going to have to let go of and give up. I look at my daughter and I think, There's going to be a point where I'm not going to be around for her. Even the thought of that breaks my heart.

I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.

Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.

And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

People die, Rachel," Ceri said, her cheeks flushing. "Not if I can help it," I snapped. "And not of a broken heart. If you could, I'd be dead already.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

When I looked into the eyes of the people who knew Laci best, I saw something I didn't want to see: a group of people who desperately loved Laci, and who were beginning to suspect she wasn't coming home.

It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.