John Nettles Quotes

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

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

It's always difficult when someone close to you passes away. But it's really tough when they're on top of you.

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

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

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

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

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

I was 33 when my father passed away.

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is losing my mom four years ago. I wouldn't even say that I've overcome it, really. I don't imagine that I ever will.

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.

All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.

Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.

My uncle used to love me, but she died.

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.

I wish my father had lived longer. He died when I was 18.