Bobby Rush Quotes

I just didn't want to admit that he was dead.

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.

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

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.

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

When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that's probably the biggest lie. It's not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still tough, and it's like losing a piece of your heart.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

A friend of mine had died, and I went for an audition. It was weird and cathartic: the producer was very excited about the piece, but my brain wasn't working, and it all seemed really pointless and fickle. I told them I didn't want to be there any more, and left. It was the most terrifying and empowering audition experience I've had.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

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

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

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

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

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

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.

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.