If I had my life to live over again, I would find you sooner so that I could love you longer. - David Kessler

I often wonder what kind of a man he would have become. But I think I got a glimpse of that.

wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. Lose your child and you're… nothing. — Tennessee Williams

While death may look like a loss to the living, the last hours of a dying person may very well be filled with fullness rather than emptiness.