Quotes About Loss

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

Oftentimes, successful brands can lose discipline or become complacent over time, applying less rigor to the cost control and returns on investment.

I think it's bad for fellas when they lose their mothers. Mine was such a character. Oh it was sad, really sad. And, with her gone, the family home was gone, so what was left of any roots I had were completely dug up.

Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?

I think losing my father was OK in the sense that it's cool for me not to have a father; it's normal. I'm supposed to bury my father. But what I didn't realize was that my father was my best friend, and that still gets me... that still irritates me a lot.

My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.

I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.

As we grow up, either we lose people or have a lot of them around us. I have seen many people who are isolated in their old age.

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.

Sometimes I don't fully accept it. It's tough. I miss doing old things. I miss shooting hoops with my friends.

There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being.

I am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone.

We had two children, who are still adored, they adore me and we're very close. Rayne was 20 years older than me. He died when he was 80, so he had a really good life.

When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam really was my older brother.

My older brother went into another city for college, and I felt like I wanted to stay in my home town to be close to my parents. Looking back, that was the best decision. My father passed away in 2010 and I got to enjoy those four years with him.

I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. He was like my closest older brother. There's just so much that we lived through together.

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.

I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.