John Edwards Quotes

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

I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

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.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

The fact that I lost my mum was horrible, and if I could change anything, I would definitely change that.

My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.

My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

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.

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

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

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.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

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.

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.

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

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

It was difficult knowing one of your cousins had lost his life.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.