Quotes About Loss

For so long I focused on all that I had lost - my legs, my anonymity, even my freedom in a way. I couldn't jump in the car, blast some music and just get away for a bit. I couldn't play basketball with my brothers. I couldn't even get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom without making it some sort of production.

Losing the Ashes was intense and emotional. My personal lack of results and contribution through that series played havoc in my mind.

That's playoff basketball. Can you not get too happy after a win? Can you understand how determined the team is going to be after a loss and bring the energy you need to bring?

There's a lot of disappointment when you lose a playoff game.

The playoffs, everybody gets a little frustrated. You lose, your season's over.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

If the question is around gun violence and the results of that, please know that my heart bleeds and is broken for those families that have lost any individual due to gun violence.

I made the decision to go on stage after my father died. And he would have wanted me to. But I won't try and plug huge grief up with the false world of show-business ever again.

My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.

I started writing after the death of my grandfather - memories, poems, etc. It was very personal; for years I did not share my writing with anyone.

Paul Lisicky, in his new memoir, 'The Narrow Door,' describes losing his old friend, the novelist Denise Gess, and his husband, the acclaimed poet and memoirist Mark Doty, within a year of each other: Gess to cancer, at the age of 57, and Doty to another man.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

I think any woman who has lost a child and certainly lost more than one child, there's going to be a part of them that they keep closed off forever.

I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us.

There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.

You want a storybook kind of closure with someone when they die, but I think that kind of thing is impossible.

I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.

A certain check to the sentimentality and commercialism of Christmas is the cluster of bereavements that often arrives towards the end of the year.

Anytime we lose a game, there it goes. The roller coaster's going down.