Quotes About Loss

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one being diabetes. I became a diabetic at 17 and went on this road of kind of self-destruction, eating-wise, until I was 40.

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

It's very hard when I've seen a couple of people very beloved in my life with terrible degenerative diseases.

I'd like to just say that there's nothing darker than 'Old Yeller' and 'Bambi' and some of the early Disney stuff.

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.

My mother, in particular, has been very disturbed and scared since my father's death.

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

I don't believe in flagship retail, because the definition of flagship retail is that it's a marketing expense, and it's going to lose money.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.

I felt great empathy for the thousands of Americans who lost their home because of a system that failed them.

I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

I lost my wife to cancer and I saw the impact of telling my story - this is what happened, this is what God did and why he was faithful.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.

Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?

She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.