Nadia Murad Quotes

I lost a brother and a sister, and I came down with rheumatic fever.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

In 1996, I was the head coach at Brigham Young University. And I got a call from my dad, and he said my brother had been murdered by du Pont. And it just infuriated me to just no end. And I think I destroyed everything in my office.

I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss.

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

I am lucky in that I have never been depressed in my life, but this is the one thing which has really affected me: the loss of my mother as I knew her.

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

It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.

I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.

I was very interested in what happens to the husband when his wife goes missing, and how quickly they can be turned into heroes and villains.

I started a list of all my friends who had died of AIDS, and I stopped at 78. I think about things like that, and I'm just real glad to be here.

In 2006, I started making a film called 'Restraint of Beasts.' While I was making it, I had a personal disaster. My wife fell ill, so we stopped shooting halfway through. And then sadly, my wife died.

My most defining moment was the death of my mother.

Tragedy struck the family when I was 10 days old. My eldest brother was killed in a car accident. He was six. My grandmother survived the incident, but the loss devastated my parents. I think they went into shock for a couple of years.

Losing two cousins who were really close to me altered my perspective on life massively.

I was only ever briefly angry with my dad for leaving us. It happened shortly after his death, when things were at their darkest and the grief in me was raw and at its worst.

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.

Losing a parent is always a terrible thing for anybody. It's no more or no less for me.

When I write a story, I try to write them from the perspective of victims. I try to write them from the perspective of families who've been done wrong, who have lost their loved ones or people who have experienced injustice.