Quotes About Loss

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long.

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

I feel that most of our pain from the loss of a loved one is things we never said or expressed.

No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially the American Irish. The availability of loss, some kind of pain, is an important part of who we are. I think my Irishness gave me that.

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile.

The pain of retirement means loss.

That's painful always to lose.

I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.

I had gone to a talent show - I was interested in American hip-hop music - with my older brother, to another town, and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.

I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.

The two most painful things in my life are arthritis and divorce.

It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.

No-one tells you about being in episodic television and it ending. No-one tells you how painful it is. How bizarre it is when you've dedicated your life to one character for five years.

Losing is very painful for me.

I can train players and talk about football. But losing as a manager was so painful, I couldn't live with it.

Divorce is no joke and is painful for whatever reason it breaks down.

I would have loved to paint Eartha Kitt, but she's no longer here. I'm so glad I had the chance to meet her.

I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again.

There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.

I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

I have the unique distinction of being on the only Olympic team to lose without controversy, and the only Pan Am Games team to lose without controversy.

Papa died when he was 77.