Michael Waltrip Quotes

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

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

When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.

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.

Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

I always thought I'd be the one to go first. The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil.

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.

One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.

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

I'm mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for the loss of my dear, dear friend and neighbor. I will miss him terribly.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

The reality is that my stepfather was like a father to me and watching him die from a sudden heart attack was one of the hardest things I have ever gone through.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

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

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.

Until you go through a bereavement, you don't know how you will cope. What we have found out is that life is completely different. The foundations that you have been building all your life are knocked down.

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?

A loss of a great friend is traumatic and emotionally tough.

I don't think it's ever really easy to lose a loved one, especially your mother.

My son Andrew was an extraordinary young man, loved and admired by all who knew him. His accidental death is a terrible tragedy.

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