Quotes About Loss

The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.

He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

I'm very grateful for every thing I have. You know when you start losing that then you start losing what life's all about.

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur