Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

Losing a parent is always a terrible thing for anybody. It's no more or no less for me.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

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

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

My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.

When you lose a mother or father, it's still the hardest time of your life.

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

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

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

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

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

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

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

Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.

When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.

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

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

The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.

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.

The reality is that my stepfather was like a father to me and watching him die from a sudden heart attack was one of the hardest things I have ever gone through.