Quotes About Loss

People without fathers tend to have two predominant characteristics. They tend to believe anything is possible. At the same time there's an anxiety and an unending insecurity. It's a very American thing because back in the past, we lost our fathers or father. The king.

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

I lost my second pregnancy.

She lost a couple of pregnancies before me. It was sort of this great healing for her to finally have a child.

When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.

We lost a baby at 11 weeks when I was 34, and we got married expecting we would have no trouble having another child, because I'd fallen pregnant that one time. But it just didn't happen and we did about four years of IVF, trying very hard to have a baby.

I don't know if every player in the Premier League feels hurt when they lose a game. The right sort is very important. I was naive in thinking that everyone was like me.

The problem is you lose too much energy when you play in the Premier League. Even when you play the team on the bottom, it is difficult.

My father passed away when I was 12, so it was very difficult. But I was always the class clown. I don't know why - maybe as an escape. But then I was sent away to military prep school.

It's true you never know the full depth of a parent's touch in your life until they're gone. Even if you cared for them in their old age, there's never a way to prepare yourself for the death of a parent.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

I lost both my parents young - but I have felt their presence throughout my life.

I was extremely close to my mother-in-law and after she, and later my father-in-law passed away, I continue to feel their presence.

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.

Anytime somebody loses a presidential election, there are lots of explanations.

I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they love and the people they've lost... I don't want to limit it to what they did in the office, but what happens at home and in their interactions with other people.

Companies that pretend to care about music and really care about other things - whether it be hardware, whether it be advertising - and now they look at music as a loss leader. And we know music isn't a loss leader; music is an important part of our lives.

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

When my mother died when I was 15, it felt like the end of my dreams of becoming a dancer - I had a sister and a brother and we had to pull together to look after the house and my father.

When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.

Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

When you have four daughters, you learn to lose early and often.