Henry Ian Cusick Quotes

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

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

When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.

I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.

I can't imagine, as a father, losing my son.

It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

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.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

I know the injustice of outliving a child, the pain of a future stolen away, of mourning forever a voice you'll never hear.

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?

I don't think any mother who has lost a child is ever the same.

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

There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt that I wanted people to know what he was like.

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

If you're a father of a child who dies, it's an experience that never leaves you. It scars you forever and ever and ever. And so when I do any kind of story with somebody who's in the same position as my daughter was, there's no question that something comes out of me and embraces that story in a way that only a father who lost a child could.

To lose a child is - I can't imagine anything worse than that.

When you have kids, you never think of burying your own child.

Parents should never have to bury their own children.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

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 thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth.

My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'