Dia Mirza Quotes

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.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

We lost my dad in 2009 to leukemia. He taught me everything I know, and I love him very much.

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.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.

I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.

If I am able to pass on what I've learnt in my life, that's really wonderful, especially after losing Dad.

I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.

Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all.

When my brother died in 1966, my father began a grieving process that lasted almost twenty-five years. For all that time, he suffered from chronic, debilitating headaches. I took him to some of the country's major medical facilities, but no one could cure him of his pain.

I was only a young girl of 13 when my father passed away from a sudden heart attack, leaving us unprepared to take on life without him. We had been protected from life's challenges so far. But without warning, all that changed overnight.

My wife was an excellent mother, her loss has left a big void in my son's life, and those are shoes that I cannot fill. The loss of a parent has not been easy on him.

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.

You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.

I finally got the dad I always wanted and then he left. At 18, 19 years old, I was really upset and had to work through that.

My dad was a pool-equipment salesman. He died when I was 12. Heart attack on a golf course.

My dad passed away when I was 10.

When my dad passed, I felt like I had to grow up very quickly.

I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, and I've had to live that as though it's real. And it can take a really big emotional toll on someone.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

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.

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.