Nina Bawden Quotes

When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him, to search for him, knowing he's out there some place.

Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

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

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.

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.

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.

In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function.

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

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

Grief is exhausting.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

I miss my mother very, very much.

A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it.

It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.