Coolio Quotes

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

In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function.

Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.

When 'Ishaqzaade' released, I was going through hell. It didn't matter what I said or did, because I had lost my mother.

I've had - after my mom passed away - like a lot of resentment, a lot of things that just happened after I lost my mom.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

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

My grandfather's death was really hard to deal with.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

Grief is exhausting.

I miss my mother very, very much.

I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

I think writers process their own experiences through the characters and situations they write. So for Batman, I used my own experience of losing a loved one. Grief is a strange place; it's like an altered state. You might sleep too much, so you can see the dead in your dreams.

We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it.

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.

When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

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

I have a, you know, a John Ritter-shaped hole in my heart. Nobody can replace that.

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.