Edward Hirsch Quotes

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.

Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.

Growing up without my parents by my side is a weight I still carry today.

I lost both my parents young - but I have felt their presence throughout my life.

My father was only thirty-one when he died of a heart attack, much too young for a father to die and leave his young wife with five rambunctious little kids to take care of. I was the youngest. Only a couple of months old when he died.

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 father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'

My mom died when I was 8.

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

The first jolt I received in my life was when I lost my father in a motorcycle accident when I was eight. I would have been with him if he hadn't turned down my request to go out with him that afternoon.

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.

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

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

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

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

I had to deal with death at a really young age.

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

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.