Quotes About Loss

In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

When I was a child, women spoke to me of how all they had was their memories, how their husbands went to war and never came back, so many tragedies. That chorus of voices filled my consciousness. It was part of life itself.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do mean it, but... there's nothing to say. There's a void that cannot be filled.

The sinner who suddenly realizes God's love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death.

Chris' absence is very much felt. There's just a huge void in our home life.

My wife was an excellent mother, her loss has left a big void in my son's life, and those are shoes that I cannot fill. The loss of a parent has not been easy on him.

My mother left behind three daughters when she went to America and started a new life. I certainly felt abandoned when my father died of a brain tumour; I felt he had abandoned me to this terrible, volatile mother and I had no protection.

Whether by my own volition or otherwise, I was given a year-and-a-half break after Dad passed. It was kind of like an elephant in the room, and everyone was giving me space, whether I wanted it or not.

My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to face the grief of losing her, because she was somebody I loved more than anybody else in the world.

Death always seems to be around me.

I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.

My parents separated when I was two, and then my father passed away, so I never really knew that side of the family.

My parents are separated. My father left when I was six years old.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

Sex is a slotmachine.

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

It's really important that we take away the shame associated with female hair loss and hair balding. It's just another beauty issue that we all can get through as soon as we start to feel more comfortable talking about it.

Losing 7-1 at home is a shameful thing.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over. They were everything to me and my world was shattered.

As a matter of fact, believe it or not guys, you can actually lose money in sports! I know that you'll find that shocking.

We thought we'd last forever. Then, of course, we didn't, and that was shocking.

At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.