Quotes About Loss

This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

What I want back is what I was.

It is very easy for middle-class people who come from moneyed backgrounds not to understand what it's like for people when they first go down to the dole office because they've lost their jobs.

I can't imagine losing my wife or daughter or only being able to see them every so often. If my work made that happen, then music would become a bad thing.

My father was murdered when I was 12 years old. It was just me and my mother and my brother at the time. My brother was a little bit older than me and he left, so it was just me and my mom for a bit in Baltimore.

I had lost my mother during 'Boond Jo Ban Gaye Moti.'

Whenever you lose, it's always bad, and especially against Barcelona.

I lost my father when I was barely 10.

One moment I can be happy and laughing, but then it comes over me. It's my mom.

It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.

I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.

I can't bear to think of life without Janice. I want to go first because I don't want to miss her, because that would be a pain far worse than any death.

You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it.

I sing 'Beirut' for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile.

We all want to belong to something, and we all want to feel as though we have a legacy, and when you see two characters that have had that taken away from them, I think that just feels very real and very human.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

My beloved father passed away just two months after I told him I was going to start a company. Whenever I make progress in my career, I wish I could share the news with my father.

When Alex left for Alaska, Franz remembers, I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him that boy was special. But he let Alex die. So on December 26, when I learned what happened, I renounced the Lord. I withdrew my church membership and became an atheist. I decided I couldn't believe in a God who would let something that terrible happen to a boy like Alex.

is a sharp hurt I feel every single day. It's really hard. Some days are better than others, but it's going to be hard every day for the rest of my life.

weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot bear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned. William Butler Yeats                   "The Second Coming"  

I don't know that you ever get over this kind of loss. The fact that Chris is gone is a sharp hurt I feel every single day. It's really hard. Some days are better than others, but it's going to be hard every day for the rest of my life.