Anna Quindlen Quotes

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

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.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

Obviously, I got very lucky that even though I lost my mother, I lost her later in life, but it's still had a profound effect on me.

My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.

Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.

I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.

I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.

When my dad died, I developed a nervous habit. He was very shy and quiet, and I was like him.

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

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.

Learning of my father's passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but catapulted my childhood and relationship with family - which had felt like another lifetime - into the present.

When I lost my dad, there was no one there to be the disciplinarian, and we kind of ran amok.

The loss of my brother was a huge moment, a life-changer for me.

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

It's not good to lose your dad at any time but at 13 years of age you are just going through puberty and growing up and that was a very crucial time and was a hard time to lose my dad and it had a big effect on me.

I'm not desensitized to death.

Becoming a mother and then losing your mother is quite... well, they both change you profoundly, and you have to give yourself time to understand what's happened with that.

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.

My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.

Unfortunately I lost my father quite early, it changes you. It changes you forever.

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

I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.