Quotes About Loss

So it's one blow after the next, three of our band members gone. Three young dudes—all unexpected, all in a short period of time.

In the space of a couple weeks in '96, two of my partners, two of the most loyal dudes, Vic and Bruce, are both suddenly gone.

Only two weeks after my brother died, I find

In October 2000, I finally received my hardship transfer to Donovan State Prison in San Diego. But it was too late for me to see my father. His cancer had progressed and there was no way he could make the 120-mile trip from

L.A. to San Diego. My dad died on September 25, 2002, without us ever getting a chance to see each other face-to-face again.

began lecturing there as well. Kairos was crucial in helping me cope with the grief and loss within my family—once again, helping me see the ripple effects of my bad decisions.

Sorry about what happened to your brother Robert." I didn't even understand what she was talking about. I had to wait until I got settled in at Ironwood and was allowed to make a phone call. My daughter told me that my brother Robert was dead.

Robert, my closest brother, had died in prison—the story she heard was that he'd had a complication from some medications and had a heart attack. The coldest part is that he'd been dead and buried for two months—nobody besides my daughter had thought to tell me about it! Again, that's how death comes to you in prison.

A stolen kiss is not easily returned.

The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.

La felicidad de los superficiales: cuando un hombre que ha perdido su asno lo encuentra otra vez.

Entregamos nuestra vida a las cosas y luego nos sorprendemos de haberla perdido

we can choose to be truthful even when the choice means personal loss. We can choose to undertake a great action - unselfish, courageous, daringly creative - that looks unreasonable and irrational to the eye of the Ego.

Audrey was the first of many who found Hank more lovable dead.

The dead man looked disconsolate. Reasonably so, in the circumstances, Charlie thought.

The pain of grief is just as much a part of life as the joy of love; it is, perhaps, the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.

Saying his name stabbed my heart, like someone had ripped through my carefully stitched up world and exposed the infected, pulsing red tissue that I thought was healing.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Death not only takes, but gives. It makes you realise what is important.

Do not cry, for I shall return in your memories.

We all live lives of love and loss.

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.