Arnel Pineda Quotes

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

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

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.

When we called each other and got the call that Jimmy had died, literally, it all ended right there. Everything we've ever known as human beings, everything we've ever known as a band, changes at that moment, and you can't think clearly.

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

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

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.

What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.

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.

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.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

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.

The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

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

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.

To hear my mother say, 'Michael is dead,' to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is nothing that anyone can ever imagine.

I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.

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.

At the age of 62, my father died of cancer - it was much too soon. My mother never remarried or got over it, never even thought of another man.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.