Donna Brazile Quotes

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

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

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

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.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I would rather not go on.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

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

During my grandma's funeral, I looked over once and saw my mom crying, and I felt so bad for her.

My father died when I was 28, and within two-and-a-half years of that, I lost my first son.

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

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

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

My mother passed. She passed when I was 10 or 11.

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

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

I had never experienced the death of someone close to me until my grandfather passed away.

I know when my parents passed away, I wanted all the support I could get.

When my dad passed, I felt like I had to grow up very quickly.