Quotes About Loss

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.

We don't want to bank all our risk on a small collection of big companies. We don't want to lose 20 percent of our business if one big account goes away.

I came out on the losing end of a home-plate collision enough times that I truly had to consider the risk.

With 'The Sea,' I was just thinking about loss, about the impact losing your father would have on you as a child, how one event that big could colour your life, bleed into everything else and force you into a certain shape.

Men will come and go from your life.

The thing about living without a father if he's always gone is that it takes a long time to realize he isn't coming home.

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.

The person that was closest to me growing up was my sister, who died at 19. She was an incredibly powerful girl, deeply committed to art and literature.

You lose your home, you lose your community, you lose your school, you lose your stuff.

'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.

It's not easy when you lose Flamini, Hleb, Senderos, Gilberto, and Lehmann. When you lose all these players - and Flamini, for me, was the best player last year - it's really difficult to compete against Chelsea, Man United, or Liverpool.

Every match I watch will be bittersweet. It will always hurt, I'll always miss competing. That's what I've done my whole life and that burning desire is not just going to leave me.

I am competitive and I feel bad when we lose. You can see it in me when we've lost. I'm in a bad way. I don't like to talk to anyone.

I'm an athlete, I'm a competitor, so whenever you have a loss, you feel it in your heart.

Losing! It bothers me a lot. I'm such a competitor, and I take everything personally.

One day, you have a father who's always around, and then the next day, he's gone. I was too young to comprehend that. I actually thought he was going to come back.

It is sometimes difficult to comprehend that I am the only member of our original family still living.

I didn't know it, but my father had a brain tumour. Everything happened very fast. Within a year, he was gone. Because I was so young, I didn't completely understand the concept of death.

Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.

I was six years old when the conflict started in Rwanda.

Through the loss of my wife and many confusing times, Jesus was always there by my side.

It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would have counselled and what she would have given.

When I look up and see a star, I know my mom is there. She's with me all the time. It's a powerful connection.

The truth is, it was my Nanna and Grandad who helped me get over my mum's death. Surrounding me with infinite, unquestioning love, they were classic kinship carers.