Molly Shannon Quotes

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

I think losing your mother at such a young age does end up shaping your life massively. Of course it does, and now I find myself trying to be there and give advice to other people who are in similar positions.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

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.

I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

My mom died when I was 8.

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

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.

Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all.

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.

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 was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.

I lost my mom to cancer when I was a kid.

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

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

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

I had a real bad attitude after my dad passed of liver cancer. I was 9, and we were really close.

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

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

I lost both my parents young - but I have felt their presence throughout my life.

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

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

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 I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.