Lois Lowry Quotes

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

The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

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.

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

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have been worse for the children and the family in general.

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 am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

It's very hard to lose someone who's the closest person to you in your life.

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

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

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

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 think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

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