Don Everly Quotes

You're never prepared to lose anybody in your family.

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.

I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

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

If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.

It was difficult knowing one of your cousins had lost his life.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

My father died when I was still in college, and it was sudden, and he was my beloved parent, and you just can't imagine what you life is going to be like.

I was 9 years old when my father - a strong, vibrant man in his early 40s - died of a heart attack. He was such a central figure in our lives that losing him was a terrible shock to all of us, my mother in particular.

My father died when I was 28, and within two-and-a-half years of that, I lost my first son.

It is very painful to talk about my dear friend Rishi Kapoor in 'past tense.'

I am devastated by the loss of my beautiful wife Jane. She was my best friend.

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

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

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

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

It's very hard to lose someone who's the closest person to you in your life.

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

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

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.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.