Quotes About Loss

I had gone from being married with a kid, two cars, garage, nice house in a nice neighborhood to all of it gone.

I live in New York. I lost some 150 friends, neighbors and constituents on Sept. 11.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

I'll never forget the first time I saw someone who had died. It was my grandfather. And I knelt next to his coffin. And all I could do was eye level was look at his hands. They were enormous hands. And all I could think was, 'Those hands dug freedom for me.'

It's difficult in your life when both parents pass so quickly and you're not really that old when they move on. There is a big gap in your life. There's a hole. You learn to live with it but never forget it.

I draw my strength from my mom, who passed away a few years ago. She taught me from the day I was just a little boy to never give up and be proud of who I am.

I will never take anything away from Pantera. It was great; we had fourteen amazing years together. But it's no longer here. My brother is no longer here.

When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.

I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It's like the cycle of fashion.

I went through a lot of maturing in a year or two. I left all my best friends, and I didn't really want to make new friends, so I spent a lot of time inside just being depressed.

My grandmother had many children. She lost most. So when we came along, we were really special. I was the first grandchild that could see her spirit moving to a new generation.

It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

Anytime a curtain closes forever, that's always sad news.

It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.

Cancer does give you a new rejuvenation. I know what it's like to be down. I lost a couple of good friends - Larry Hagman and Nick Ashford - who had the same type of cancer that I did, and that makes you think.

My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

I have this nightmare that one day I will have to look at every picture I've ever taken with people in an airport or in bars or restaurants, and it will make me very sad.

'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.

When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

I didn't meet my father until he was 30, and he died nine months after that.

I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.