Quotes About Loss

I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything.

The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him... when he is dead.

Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose - you drop into a different kind of serious.

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

So often, when somebody dies in the family, whether a child or a parent, there is no one to lean on. When something like that happens, you go into a shell, but on the other hand, it's a really good thing to talk it over and say how you feel.

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have a dead mother or a lost parent.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes.

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

I think any parent, at some time or other, has thoughts of their child dying. That's probably one of the worst things that could ever happen to a parent.

If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life.

Any scene I've ever played where I've thought people who watch it had experienced something like that - for example, people who've had to deal with losing a parent - I want to do it as respectfully as possible for those people.

When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.

It's hard losing a parent, especially dad because he was always behind me. It was his dream and my dream for me to become a footballer.

It is devastating, losing a parent. I don't really know what the effect is, but I suppose people might call me an ambitious man, and I'd say that an ambitious man is a damaged man.

Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.

I remember going to a funeral at a very fundamentalist church, and I just had to get out of there. I went out in the parking lot and just sobbed. I think there was a sense of loss of that little boy not knowing if he was right or wrong. Everything I grew up with I had to walk away from.

My father had Parkinson's, though he actually died following a bicycle accident.

I was in diapers when my parents left me with the babysitter to participate in an armored car robbery. They never came home.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.