Quotes About Loss

I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.

I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.

Profit or loss is not guaranteed. That depends on the consumer and depends on the product. That's a risk that business people take.

Success means making profits and avoiding losses.

About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.

Obviously, I got very lucky that even though I lost my mother, I lost her later in life, but it's still had a profound effect on me.

There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.

My brother and I have a profound nostalgia for our youth, and I think people need to come to terms with things leaving and being gone.

There is nothing compared to the feeling of losing life. The moment when you are close to death is nothing but a profound experience.

The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity.

When I hear stories about the number of kids that have been lost to violence, where families grow up teaching kids 'duck and cover' long before they learn their ABC's or their colors, I know there is something profoundly wrong in our city.

We are not programmed to bury our kids.

When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.

No matter how many times it happens, the public always seems to be shocked when an athlete dies young, but the reality is, there are no promises.

My sister and I wrote some songs together under a project called Sala Says Mhyp when I was 17. Sala is our cat. She died, and we wanted to do something in honor of our her. We were a proper cat family.

I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.

It took about five years until we were properly over Freddie's passing. You learn to live with it.

I knew I was going to lose my house in Ireland and all the other properties. It's all gone. But my house was the one material thing that was very important to me.

Our private property must be sacrificed.

The actions I took at a time of national crisis in 2003 were necessary to protect lives and property and restore law and order. Regrettably, lives were lost among both the government forces and armed protesters.

I have no respect for the prosecutors, the judges. And I say that not with malice in my heart. I say it because they took 30 years from me.

I worry that we risk losing the hard-won gains that have made America a safer and more prosperous place.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

I loved and protected my own children like a fierce mama bear, but one of them died anyway. It was a dark day when I realized that part of my responsibility in Casey's death was that I did not love all the children of the world in that same real, not abstract, way.