Annie Wersching Quotes

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is losing my mom four years ago. I wouldn't even say that I've overcome it, really. I don't imagine that I ever will.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

I was raised by my mother. My father died when I was 15. He was just 41.

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

I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.

Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.

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 lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.

I can't imagine a pain more all-encompassing than losing a child.

I lost my partner [Anselmo Feleppa] to HIV then it took about three years to grieve; then after that I lost my mother. I felt almost like I was cursed.

When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way.

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

I was very attached to my family when my father died. I was 19. I was about to go live with my father right when he died, so it was very intense.

Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may cut free memories and feelings that we thought had gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections.

Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only imagine the agony she felt. And Eleanor Roosevelt really wanted to make her mother happier, and - and to make her live, you know, make her want to live. And there's something about, you know, when your mother dies, this sense of abandonment. I think Eleanor Roosevelt had a lifelong fear of abandonment and sense of abandonment after her parents' death.

It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar.

To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

I lost my brother when I was 22. He was only 24. I was always the kind of person to live on the edge, but after that, it made me feel like I could really die. It can really happen. Before then, I never thought it could happen to me or my family.

No mother should lose her child.

I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

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

I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.