Neve McIntosh Quotes

When our William was killed, there wasn't a child bereavement charity. I was extremely blessed with a very close family, wonderful friends, a supportive husband, and two further children.

My grandfather's death was really hard to deal with.

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.

You always hear about people going through miscarriages and you never understand what one is like unless you go through it.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

I know I was very unstable and unhappy all through my life. I lost my mother and then my father. Losing Dad was like losing the bearings of my life. My sisters took it badly, but I took it worse. Throughout my lean phases, Dad was like a solid rock, supporting me, whether it was work, or my jail term.

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.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

It was the saddest day of my life.

I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.

The loss of my dad gave me a lot of inspiration because sometimes I stop and think, 'Would everybody have done the same thing that I did?' It was a very tough thing to cope with. I only went home for less than 24 hours.

When my dad died, I had to go to therapy.

It took me a year to talk about my miscarriage.

When 'Ishaqzaade' released, I was going through hell. It didn't matter what I said or did, because I had lost my mother.

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

I lost my parents, which is the toughest thing to overcome.

I write about what happens in my life - and my dad's passing was a huge blow to me.

My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to face the grief of losing her, because she was somebody I loved more than anybody else in the world.

One moment I can be happy and laughing, but then it comes over me. It's my mom.

I've had - after my mom passed away - like a lot of resentment, a lot of things that just happened after I lost my mom.

No one saw me cry over my dad's death for almost nine years. I hid what I felt, bottling up my emotions so tightly that almost nothing leaked out.

We know the Victorian way of dealing with death, which was not dealing with it. You'll never get over it but having the support of a counsellor who has been there hundreds of times is so important, to help you develop strategies to cope.

On 'Heavy Rain,' the game started with something that happened to me when I lost my son, my six-year-old boy, in a mall. I was so scared. I was curious to see if I could create that impression, that fear, in a game, an interactive experience.