Robert P. McCulloch Quotes

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

We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain.

It's not possible to put into words the sense of loss and grief that comes to a family that loses one of their children.

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

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 I was 12 years old, my father was killed. I lost a loved one to violence. The pain was because I lost my father. It didn't matter that he was an officer... It shaped my life. If anything, it made me a strong advocate for the victims of violence.

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

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

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

The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.

I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

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.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.

Wars are detested by mothers.

When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.

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

I guess, over time, I had convinced myself that I could imagine what it would be like to lose a son or daughter. You try to imagine it so that you can write the right kind of letters or form the right words to try to comfort. But you can't even come close. It is unimaginable.

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

Cancer has been a dark thread that has run throughout my life. It's taken my friends, my parents. My beautiful son.

I lost my girl a couple years back, Aaliyah, in a plane crash. I wasn't expecting that, and also, my mother died, and at the time, my father wasn't in my life; the only person that took care of me was my mom.

I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.