Quotes About Loss

I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.

I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.

Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life and into something else.

Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!

I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.

I have experienced loss in my life, but the thing that brings you back is your faith.

You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.

They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don't teach you a thing about death. There's no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.

Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.

Life can seem rather unreal at times. Alive and well and loving one day. No longer there the next.

When you have a major loss in your life, the first thing you need to do is tell God exactly how you feel.

It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.

President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.

I've got to the stage in life where all my friends are rich or dead

Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.