Quotes About Grief

There is a pent-up demand from people who want to clone their dead children.

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

I was pretty depressed when I was a teenager. The thing that spurred that on was that my dad died from cancer when I was 11 years old.

I lost my parents. I was totally alone and I had to manage everything all alone. It did put me in depression.

Nothing had prepared me for the depth of pain George's death precipitated.

Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.

Do I miss him? Of course I do. Every day. His death was devastating, he was just 51. But you know, in my stand-up my Dad will always be alive. He's so much part of my act.

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.

My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

I feel like I died as a child.

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.

When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.

My mother died on my birthday.

When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

When my mother died, we had the coffin at home. Like, old-school - you have the coffin at home so all the people can come and see the person. And her coffin was next to my room, so I used to go in and stand on a chair and look at her. You know, it's open coffin and stuff.

Well, my mother, I knew until I was 13. She died when I was 13.

But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.