Darin Strauss Quotes

I found my grandmother dead. It shook me up. I got up to make her breakfast, and I knew it was strange that she wasn't stirring. I went in to wake her, and she was laying in rigor mortis, and I'm done. I called next door, and the kid picked up the phone, and I was so wild, he dropped it.

Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

When tragedy strikes, feeling helpless is understandable.

I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.

I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

It felt like a very, very weird thing to go on the set on September 13th. I would never want to glorify that.

This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured.

My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'

There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.

If something was to happen to part of my family, I don't know what I'd do.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.

It was the saddest day of my life.

It's hard when people die, but there's something about when people die suddenly.

I guess, over time, I had convinced myself that I could imagine what it would be like to lose a son or daughter. You try to imagine it so that you can write the right kind of letters or form the right words to try to comfort. But you can't even come close. It is unimaginable.

Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.

When we called each other and got the call that Jimmy had died, literally, it all ended right there. Everything we've ever known as human beings, everything we've ever known as a band, changes at that moment, and you can't think clearly.

I've been blessed in many ways, but none of the heights from football can ever compare to the depths you go through when you lose a child.