Quotes About Loss

I'm just really appreciative of the loyal fans in St. Louis who just lost their team. It's not an easy situation to go through. On the other hand, we have to move forward.

Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your children are gone, your husband's gone, your mother's gone.

Clearly, the inhabitants of stable democracies find it hard to appreciate what they have: 'You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone' isn't just a song lyric; it's an expression of something fundamental about the human brain.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet. I think he felt, 'I don't want to say something wrong.' That's my sense of it.

I just don't do anything fun anymore. But, that's dying, isn't it? I mean, you die in stages, right? You let things go in pieces.

There are many stages of grief.

They say seven stages of grief. I think it's more like 77.

Music has lost the stamp of originality.

My mother died, and I couldn't stand to look at her bedroom any more. I'd get sick. I've always been a momma's boy.

My first breakup happened when I was in standard 9th. I remember being very lost, and for me, it was like the end of the world, and I will never find another girl.

The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures themselves against. If we lose the BBC, it won't be quite as bad as losing the royal family, but an integral part of this country will have gone. But then, I'm an old guy.

When you lose for the All Blacks it's not a nice feeling. Expectations on us are pretty high. We have high standards and we know if we've let ourselves or let the jersey down.

It's very painful to lose, and it's a very difficult process to go through, especially at a place like UCLA where the standards are very high.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

No man can lose what he never had.

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.

Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.

Men die but sorrow never dies.

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.