Susan Wiggs Quotes

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

My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I didn't do that much in Chicago after that. I actually sat around and didn't do anything for three years. I didn't know what I wanted to do anymore because my everything was gone. I was a mama's boy, and I had to turn into a man real quick.

Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

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.

Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

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

Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.

Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

To lose two babies is really scary. It really caught on me emotionally, physically, everything. It took me at least 15 years to get over it and still, to this day, I miss my son.

I lost three cousins and a best friend, and they all came at the wrong time. Everyone told me to be strong and that they were in a better place. But I didn't want to hear that. They were gone and I will never see them again.

It took me a year to talk about my miscarriage.

It makes you tougher. And when you lose a child, no one can say anything that is ever going to impact you.

A loss of a great friend is traumatic and emotionally tough.

My father passed away when I was 18. It was the worst thing that ever happened to me, but it is not like that all the time. Not every moment is dark.

I know when my parents passed away, I wanted all the support I could get.

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.

Sometimes I feel like I've forgotten how to be the mom after the death of my son.