Riyad Mahrez Quotes

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

Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.

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.

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

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

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.

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

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

These displays of affection mean a lot to our family and are a reminder of the heart that my people have. In this time of grief we ask for a little privacy and space to digest this news; our sister was our sun and we are broken by her departure.

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.

My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child.

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.

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

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.

It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

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

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

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