Quotes About Loss

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors.

If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

When a mother dies, a daughter's mourning never completely ends.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

My mother left me when I was 2 years old which is devestating to a child.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mothers loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.

Brian Howe had no mother, so he won't be missed.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

I want to do something to help those who lost their parents, who lost their mothers and their fathers. Those are our people. Those are our children. Those are our parents.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.