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Quotes About Loss

When you are young nothing is more important than football but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.
~ Jermain Defoe
The family that prays together, still probably dies in the fire.
~ Joey Comeau
The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family.
~ Unknown
The family is the focal point of our existence. And up until Jane and Lucy's death, there were always 16 of us together for Christmas.
~ Richard Attenborough
There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.
~ Maajid Nawaz
Having money is about handling it the correct way. In my lifetime, I've both lost and made millions.
~ Chris Mentillo
You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.
~ Unknown
She probably fell asleep and was washed away by the tortoise waves!"-Arista
~ Unknown
The trouble with the dead, as I see it, is they don't stay that way.
~ Unknown
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
~ James Rainwater
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Full fathom five thy father lies
~ William Shakespeare
The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
~ Eminem
My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.
~ Melina Marchetta
The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.
~ Pele
IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.
~ Edward Carpenter
Hey, Ocean Eyes," my father said. "Where'd you go on us?
~ Alice Sebold
When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
~ William Blake
I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.
~ Tina Ambani
I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."
~ Al Gore
Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.
~ Chiwetel Ejiofor
You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.
~ Michael Jordan