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Quotes About Loss

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.
~ Nigella Lawson
After the tragic events of Manchester, with the senseless loss of life and the fear that came from knowing my family was unsafe and that I was completely powerless to protect them, I went to a very dark place with no tools to handle the feelings that came along with the devastation of the attack.
~ Frankie Grande
I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry.
~ Charles Francis Richter
Cersei is a character who's done unspeakable things, and yet we also know that she's a mother who's lost her children - that she's been pushed to the end of her tether.
~ Jeremy Podeswa
I know I was very unstable and unhappy all through my life. I lost my mother and then my father. Losing Dad was like losing the bearings of my life. My sisters took it badly, but I took it worse. Throughout my lean phases, Dad was like a solid rock, supporting me, whether it was work, or my jail term.
~ Sanjay Dutt
What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.
~ Michele Bachmann
I was happy to carry on without children because I was completely immersed in my work and my career. I only heard the clock ticking in my late 30s, and when my mother Marion died the year I turned 40 it hit me with such a force that we ended up having IVF, which turned out to be unsuccessful.
~ Lisa Stansfield
I saw someone lose $100 million in one night. When you watch that, as an owner-operator of a game, you realize that these numbers are incredibly unsustainable, incredibly unhealthy. So, I was not happy about this loss. It brought me no joy or adrenaline.
~ Molly Bloom
We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.
~ Boris Yeltsin
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
~ Margaret Mitchell
You don't appreciate things until they're gone. For me, I miss my friends; I don't miss boxing, I miss the camaraderie.
~ Sugar Ray Leonard
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
~ Herman Melville
It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.
~ Cilla Black
We don't realize how much we need something until it's taken away from us.
~ Yungblud
I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.
~ Maurice Sendak
I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until that point I'd lived in five different family configurations. Each one ended or changed through a death or some terrible loss.
~ Sharon Salzberg
If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.
~ Max Heindel
The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in his own way. While it may not come at the time we desire, the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
For the residents of Minneapolis, the loss of Prince is too large to describe. His music brought untold joy to people all over the world. But in Minneapolis, it is different. It is harder here.
~ Betsy Hodges
When I lost my brother, it kind of messed me up because in my city, I know everybody. I kind of felt untouchable.
~ Stephen Jackson
I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career.
~ Benazir Bhutto
Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.
~ Anthony Horowitz
I don't think there is anything unusual about a business losing money in certain years.
~ Thomas Peterffy
I hurt for every mother who's lost a son, every son who's lost a father, and every child whose life was taken far too soon. We honor their memories with an unwavering determination to create a better future for ourselves and for our children.
~ Lucy McBath