Claire Tomalin Quotes

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him, to search for him, knowing he's out there some place.

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

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

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

I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.

To lose a child is - I can't imagine anything worse than that.

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.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

It's very hard to lose someone who's the closest person to you in your life.

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.

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

My daughter passed away in 2003.

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

I know the injustice of outliving a child, the pain of a future stolen away, of mourning forever a voice you'll never hear.

I don't think it's ever really easy to lose a loved one, especially your mother.

I don't think any mother who has lost a child is ever the same.

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form

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

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