Quotes About Loss

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

I think, a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable or having a really broken family.

In a close-knit community like Jasper, every loss feels personal.

I lost a brother and a sister, and I came down with rheumatic fever.

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

There were a few things going on then away from football, my nan and grandad passed away quite close together and, this might sound daft to anyone who doesn't have a dog, but my dog passed away and that hurt me.

There are a few things I lost which I shouldn't have lost. I know what I did wrong. I was lazy.

I mean, you can't really enjoy some of the games that you've had. Like I think I've had a career-high night or whatever and we still lost. I'd much rather have the win and had fewer points.

We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost.

There was a time in Amir Khan's career when you had to fight him; you couldn't really box him. You wouldn't see Amir take beatings: if he lost, he would just get caught and stopped. It was hard to catch him clean and keep up with him in the ring because he was such a dynamic fighter.

My dad died, and he wasn't in my life because he had schizophrenia, so it's been something that my entire family has been fighting against since I can remember.

First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.

I think it's wonderful when people who have lost someone find love again, but I'm not personally looking, and I haven't been on a date in 27 years. In fact, it's been so long, I've had a couple of lovely women ask me out because they figured that's the case.

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

My schedule fills up so ridiculously hard that you see me fighting and I take a loss or you see me fighting and I look terrible, but you have to go back and if you could see the schedule that I'm on you'd say, this is crazy. There's nobody who should be fighting on this kind of schedule.

You might cry during a game if you lose a final. That's all part of football.

There have been so many majors that got away, starting at Riviera in '95, taking a three-shot lead into the final round of the PGA and not winning.

Losing one final, that happens, but when it happens three times in a row, that is something else entirely.

My worst moment in football was losing that Champions League final to Barca in Rome.

It's always disappointing to lose a final.

You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.

I won three FA Cup finals, two League Cup finals, and played in one of United's two Champions League-winning finals. But I lost in a lot of finals, too: the FA Cup in 1995, 2005 and 2007, the League Cup in 2003, and the Champions League in 2009 and 2011.

Not a day goes by that I don't think about my finger, but I don't really miss it.

I think after you write something and you're finished with it, there is a sense of loss. That this is a world I can't really re-enter the way that I could when I was working on it. The covers of the book close it to the writer.