Quotes About Loss

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

As a father I can't imagine the pain of digging my own child's grave.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

Without parents, you sort of lose the gravity that keeps your feet on the earth.

The thing with Berry and Duane and the rest of us in the original Allman Brothers seemed to be a once-in-a-lifetime thing. When Duane was killed, we knew we lost a great part of that, but we still managed to play some great music.

That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

It's just sad to see what happened to Nipsey when he was doing all these great things for the community. Hopefully, everybody in different communities can learn from that and realize you don't want to take away the people that are doing great things for you, in your community.

Being robbed is a really great way of editing your belongings.

Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.

You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be around in awhile. Closure is impossible; that's the heart of the grief you will carry with you for the rest of your life.

Everyone deals with grief in their own way.

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

Grief is the great equalizer.

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

Grief is a process, not a state.

Grief is exhausting.

Even with my father and brother dying, I didn't quite process the grief.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing.