Billy Graham Quotes

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.

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.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

Losing someone you love is tough.

Nothing had prepared me for the depth of pain George's death precipitated.

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

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

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

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

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's very hard to lose someone who's the closest person to you in your life.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.

I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

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 death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.