Saoirse Ronan Quotes

To hear my mother say, 'Michael is dead,' to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is nothing that anyone can ever imagine.

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

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

Good words will not give me back my children.

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

A piece of each of us died.

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

Losing my sister to cancer was... That was the worst thing in the world, man.

Broadchurch' is shot through with the fear of being a parent: what's the most horrific loss you can imagine and how could you go on living afterwards?

When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him, to search for him, knowing he's out there some place.

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

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.

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

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.'

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

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

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

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

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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 had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

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

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.