Ben Fogle Quotes

My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive.

I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.

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

I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

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

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

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.

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

I thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

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

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, 'I won't ever see my brother again. I won't ever see my mom again.' And it just kind of hits you like that.

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

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

My mum had 14 pregnancies - but only four of us survived. We had a little sister born for a few days and she died. There had to be a funeral.

The loss of my brother was a huge moment, a life-changer for me.

It is something you can't predict, and it is the huge sadness in your life, losing a child.

The toughest challenges I've faced are the deaths of my mother and Stephen Gately.

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.