Quotes About Grief

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

After Katrina, no one was the same. People, relatives, they were dying one after another.

Losing close relatives doesnt get any easier, really, but losing your parents is the big deal.

Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.

My granddad passed away a month before I started shooting for 'Ishaqzaade,' and my mom died just before the film's release, both within a year of each other.

Me, I'm not a guy who's dealt with a lot of death in my life, so when it hits you, it hits hard, you question different things.

Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

I bought a house in England in 1990, shortly after my father died, hoping to come home to England and spend time with my family.

I think, for other people who have lost someone and have loved again, it's a beautiful thing. But it's just not really on my horizon.

Even one death is horrible.

When someone is dying, there is nothing you really can do, it's a horrible situation, and... you just have to get through it.

Broadchurch' is shot through with the fear of being a parent: what's the most horrific loss you can imagine and how could you go on living afterwards?

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

Only those who have lost their parents will know what it is like. It is horrific, it is hard and it breaks your heart, it really does.

Non-fictionalised accounts of horrific accidents, bereavement, and the outrages of officialdom tend to move us deeply.

And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.

I've had to put horses down on the farm before, and it's very, very sad.

I lost a sister to pneumonia, when she was 2 years old. She died at home, not in a hospital, where maybe her life could have been saved.

I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.

When Dusty Rhodes passed away, that hit me hard because I couldn't call him any more. He couldn't bust my chops. He made a huge difference in my life on so many levels.