Kate Beckinsale Quotes

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

When you lose a parent, it's a strange feeling. It's a hard thing to get used to.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.

I am lucky in that I have never been depressed in my life, but this is the one thing which has really affected me: the loss of my mother as I knew her.

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

Losing someone you love is tough.

Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.

When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

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.

When my mother passed away I was 20.

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

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

The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

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