Quotes About Loss

My daughter told me, 'Daddy, if I don't make it, I don't want you to stop helping these other kids.' So that's where I've been able to go on. I tell people - and I really believe this - I didn't lose a daughter; I gained so many other kids.

Every officer, every deputy, every agent we lose is one too many. It's a loss to our organizations, of course, it's a loss to our community, and most importantly, it's a devastating loss to the loved ones they leave behind.

I wanted to stay home and go to Maryland because I'm really the man of my house. We lost our father when I was 14. Somebody had to be there, so I had to take it and put that on my shoulders.

Our father passed away when we were young so mom was the mom and the dad.

Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.

There are holes in our lives that can never be filled - not really, not ever.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.

I never thought I was going to lose the first title fight. I was literally obsessed with the outcome only, and I couldn't imagine any other way possible. I thought I was going to explode and die before I lost. But I lost.

Before my mum passed away, I was a very extroverted person; I was very outgoing. I didn't care what people thought about me.

All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

You learn to accept losing someone, but you never get over it.

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.

At the age of 62, my father died of cancer - it was much too soon. My mother never remarried or got over it, never even thought of another man.

Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.

Parties don't lose overnight, there is a gradual erosion of their base and electoral machine, which leads to sometimes cataclysmic defeat.

Losing in overtime is not much fun.