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Quotes About Loss

Madre, hija, niño de tres años —insistí, empezando otra vez a enfadarme—. A nadie les importan una mierda. —¿Y qué? Nadie se preocupaba por ellos cuando estaban vivos. ¿Por qué esperas que se preocupen ahora que han muerto?
~ James Patterson
The guy who'd kissed me last week—that guy was gone. Sure, I'd rejected him, and sure, I didn't own him. But even so, it hurt. I missed the Richie who'd mooned over me.
~ James Patterson
The Black Velvet Band
~ James Patterson
Have you ever felt a beloved hand grow cold in yours? If not, then I don't expect you to understand.
~ James Patterson
and, now, The Perfect Storm, life on The Lost had always been extremely
~ James Patterson
to say good-bye. I wasn't there to tell her how much I
~ James Patterson
Tara McLellan, who these men have been convicted of killing, was a colleague of mine and a very close family friend.
~ James Patterson
As the wars and natural disasters fall upon one another like a hard rain, they get buried in the quickly overlapping layers of mud in our shitty memories.
~ James Patterson
The first photograph I ever experienced consciously is a picture of my mother from before she gave birth to me. Unfortunately, it's a black-and-white photograph, which means that many of the details have been lost, turning into nothing but gray shapes.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.
~ Marla Sokoloff
My uncle died in 1987. I unfortunately - I saw it happen before it happened, which was really, really hard because I was 16 years old and I thought, like, Well, I'm seeing this. I'm supposed to stop this. And I couldn't.
~ John Edward
Unfortunately, not all stories end positively.
~ Max von Sydow
Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
They're always saying that tragedy brings family closer, but unfortunately, sometimes it doesn't work like that.
~ Kendra Wilkinson
I begged my mother to not allow them to take it. We did our best, but unfortunately, I had to lose my right leg.
~ Lauren Wasser
Loss is a part of life, unfortunately, and you've got to just deal with it.
~ Brett Gelman
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
~ Euripides
I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
I found out when I was 18 that Dad had left my mother and the family before he realised he was ill and then died. When I asked Mum about it, she just sort of shrugged it off and said she'd thought I knew about it all along. Of course I hadn't, though I'm sure she must have been desperately unhappy at the time.
~ Martin Clunes
I was very unhappy about being killed off on 'Supernatural' in season 7.
~ Jim Beaver
Perhaps I've found the secret for an unhappy private life. Every three years, I go and marry a girl who doesn't love me, and then she proceeds to take all my money.
~ Glen Campbell
We made too many expensive movies trying to offset the loss of the 'LOTR' income. There was a lot of pressure to re-create that franchise, which turned out to be unhealthy for us, because it's such a once-in-a-lifetime success. It would be like trying to re-create 'Avatar' over and over again.
~ Toby Emmerich
Mourning never ends for those who've faced unimaginable losses.
~ Alan Colmes
By God's grace, my wife Shashi and I have been blessed with a daughter. It is the end of a long and painful wait for a child. It is a matter of unimaginable joy especially for my wife who had her heart set on another child ever since we lost our only son Shanu when he was just two-years-old.
~ Satish Kaushik