Danny Drinkwater Quotes

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

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

When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

Going back to 2012, it was a bad year for me. I lost my dad as well, so burying him a week before I went to jail, just having all of that emotion, it just hit me hard.

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.

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.

Grief is exhausting.

Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life.

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.

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

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

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.

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

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

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.

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

To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.

I must write you a line of deepest sympathy. I know how you must be suffering about Constance. We cannot disguise from ourselves that our old Constance has gone forever. I feel, whatever it may be in the future, for the moment she has passed out of the lives of her family. She has become an impersonal being, and no one will feel this so much as you.

From losing my mom, I'll never be okay; I'll never be put together again.