Marillyn Hewson Quotes

The reality is that my stepfather was like a father to me and watching him die from a sudden heart attack was one of the hardest things I have ever gone through.

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

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

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.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

My father died when I was 28, and within two-and-a-half years of that, I lost my first son.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.

I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

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.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?

My father died when I was still in college, and it was sudden, and he was my beloved parent, and you just can't imagine what you life is going to be like.

The loss of my brother was a huge moment, a life-changer for me.

I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect it to escalate so rapidly. In my mind, it was like, 'He'll pull through.' When he didn't, I didn't understand. I was 21, and my best friend had died.

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

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.

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.

There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.