Deborah Sampson Quotes

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

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

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

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

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

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

You're never prepared to lose anybody in your family.

When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him, to search for him, knowing he's out there some place.

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

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

My mother died, and I couldn't stand to look at her bedroom any more. I'd get sick. I've always been a momma's boy.

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

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.

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

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

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

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

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.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.

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

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.