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Quotes About Loss

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
~ Young Jeezy
Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.
~ Walter Mosley
A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.
~ Kristin Hannah, Summer Island
John Le Mesurier wishes it to be known that he conked out on November 15th. He sadly misses family and friends.
~ Unknown
A family is created throughout the process, and it's always difficult when you lose someone.
~ Daniela Ruah
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.
~ Maya Angelou
I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.
~ Lloyd Banks
My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back.
~ Tupac Shakur
The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
~ Stephen King
I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.
~ Mary J. Blige
So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?
~ Michael Milken
Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.
~ William Osler
I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.
~ Roger Ebert
A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy
~ Unknown
I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.
~ Torrey Smith
I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.
~ Nick Carter
My grandmother died of natural causes. Or as my family calls it murdered by the lord.
~ Dane Cook
We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend [George Michael] - the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family and all of his fans.
~ Elton John
I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.
~ Sean Penn
My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.
~ Robert Winston
I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.
~ Elin Nordegren
I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.
~ James Purdy