Michael Che Quotes

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.

Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

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

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

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.

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

I really miss Diana. I loved her so much.

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

A line of duty death, whether an officer, special agent, or professional staff employee, is personal to the FBI, and it's personal to me as Director.

In 2006, I started making a film called 'Restraint of Beasts.' While I was making it, I had a personal disaster. My wife fell ill, so we stopped shooting halfway through. And then sadly, my wife died.

The toughest challenges I've faced are the deaths of my mother and Stephen Gately.

I lost my girl a couple years back, Aaliyah, in a plane crash. I wasn't expecting that, and also, my mother died, and at the time, my father wasn't in my life; the only person that took care of me was my mom.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony.

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

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