Imran Tahir Quotes

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

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

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

When 'Ishaqzaade' released, I was going through hell. It didn't matter what I said or did, because I had lost my mother.

Going back to 2012, it was a bad year for me. I lost my dad as well, so burying him a week before I went to jail, just having all of that emotion, it just hit me hard.

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

My grandfather's death was really hard to deal with.

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

In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function.

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 was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

Grief is exhausting.

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

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

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

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

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

Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

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.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.