Sebastian Thrun Quotes

Broadchurch' is shot through with the fear of being a parent: what's the most horrific loss you can imagine and how could you go on living afterwards?

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.

My father died when I was 28, and within two-and-a-half years of that, I lost my first son.

It is very painful to talk about my dear friend Rishi Kapoor in 'past tense.'

My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.

One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.

It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.

First and foremost, I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Michael Brown. As I have said in the past, I know that, regardless of the circumstances here, they lost a loved one to violence. I know the pain that accompanies such a loss knows no bounds.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

I was 9 years old when my father - a strong, vibrant man in his early 40s - died of a heart attack. He was such a central figure in our lives that losing him was a terrible shock to all of us, my mother in particular.

I think any woman who has lost a child and certainly lost more than one child, there's going to be a part of them that they keep closed off forever.

I am devastated by the loss of my beautiful wife Jane. She was my best friend.

My son Andrew was an extraordinary young man, loved and admired by all who knew him. His accidental death is a terrible tragedy.

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

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 lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

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

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