Quotes About Loss

As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.

His death had left her with an emptiness that she knew would never fill completely. But time had lessened the pain.

But now it's time for me to join her. It's time for us to sing together. It's my time and I have no regrets. I'm back with Clara again, and that's the only place I've ever wanted to be. Scatter my ashes to the wind and flowers, and don't cry for me. Instead, I want you to smile for the both of us; smile with joy for me and my gal. - Tuck

I died on that mountain, too. I left a part of myself up there.

For years I have engaged with this ecological crisis on an intellectual level, the mounting evidence, the science... but now I have engaged with the potential destruction of this world on an emotional level and there is a fundamental difference. There is huge feeling of grief, of loss.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

As soon as something happens to us in America, everyone begins talking about healing. But before you heal, you have to mourn.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

We have this time to meet and do something, or just be together, and then we lose it and move to another kind of time, another kind of being, I guess. Those left behind must mourn, remember, and live on as we know.

We don't help people mourn in our society.

Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

My biggest learning has been understanding that celebrating someone's life is more important than mourning the loss of one.

I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

I think the demise of a marriage is like a death, and there is a mourning that goes with it. It's devastating.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.

'History Is All You Left Me' is about the loss of your first love and how you move on beyond that and if you can.

It's always been the ones that got away that stick in your memory. You use them for motivation. The ones you win are brilliant and you enjoy them, and then you move on.

Blood and death. That moves me.

The Civil War always moves me.

Sometimes when you do big movies, you can lose sometimes a little bit of soul.