Donna Shalala Quotes

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

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, 'I won't ever see my brother again. I won't ever see my mom again.' And it just kind of hits you like that.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

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

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

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.

Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.

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

As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.

My grandfather's death was really hard to deal with.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

Every loss of life is terrible.

We are not programmed to bury our kids.

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.