Sam Allardyce Quotes

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

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

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

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

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

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

Talking about the loss of my parents... that was really, really difficult to go through.

I lost my mom when I was young.

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

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.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

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.

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

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

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

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

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

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 held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose - you drop into a different kind of serious.

Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.

You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.