Andrew Strauss Quotes

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

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

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

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.

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

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

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

The loss of my father left a great emptiness in my heart.

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

Losing my sister to cancer was... That was the worst thing in the world, man.

You're never prepared to lose anybody in your family.

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

The toughest challenges I've faced are the deaths of my mother and Stephen Gately.

My best girl is dead.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - "Indian Boy Love Song #1

If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.