Unspeakable Tragedy Quotes

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

I thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth.

My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.

If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.

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

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

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

Mourning never ends for those who've faced unimaginable losses.

When you have kids, you never think of burying your own child.

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

I can't imagine, as a father, losing my son.

There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt that I wanted people to know what he was like.

I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences - the people who live on with this death.

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

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

To lose a child is - I can't imagine anything worse than that.

I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That's too sad a story to go into.

Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at.

I know the injustice of outliving a child, the pain of a future stolen away, of mourning forever a voice you'll never hear.