Unspeakable Sorrow Quotes

It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

First and foremost, I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Michael Brown. As I have said in the past, I know that, regardless of the circumstances here, they lost a loved one to violence. I know the pain that accompanies such a loss knows no bounds.

Good words will not give me back my children.

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

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

We are not programmed to bury our kids.

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.

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

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.