Quotes About Loss

Every war has its demons.

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

I was pretty depressed when I was a teenager. The thing that spurred that on was that my dad died from cancer when I was 11 years old.

Retirement, to me, is depressing. Depressing.

I lost my parents. I was totally alone and I had to manage everything all alone. It did put me in depression.

Nothing had prepared me for the depth of pain George's death precipitated.

When I was 15, Dad left the family for good. I didn't want to believe it at the time, but the fact was that he deserted us kids and abandoned Mom after 25 years of marriage.

Seattle deserves a team. They got robbed of their basketball team.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

Lee Rang was abandoned by love, so he's a character who has a deep desire for destruction.

Whole communities have been devastated as good-paying jobs continue to leave the U.S.

I'm gutted, devastated that in front of my own fans I've lost my belt.

Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.

That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.

Do I miss him? Of course I do. Every day. His death was devastating, he was just 51. But you know, in my stand-up my Dad will always be alive. He's so much part of my act.

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.

Live today as if you don't have tomorrow: my husband was diagnosed and killed by cancer within six months.

Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.

To live is to die.

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.

My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.