Angelina Jolie 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.

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

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.

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

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

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.

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.

I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

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.

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

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.

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

Mourning never ends for those who've faced unimaginable losses.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

It's difficult in your life when both parents pass so quickly and you're not really that old when they move on. There is a big gap in your life. There's a hole. You learn to live with it but never forget it.

My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to face the grief of losing her, because she was somebody I loved more than anybody else in the world.

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

I had a real bad attitude after my dad passed of liver cancer. I was 9, and we were really close.

When you lose a mother or father, it's still the hardest time of your life.

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