Quotes About Loss

My grandfather died when I was 14, and he was in Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. So be grateful for your life because nothing is guaranteed. Everything could literally be taken away from you tomorrow.

On September 22, 2002, my mama, Buhlar Hinton, died. When the guards told me, I gave up. She'd been deteriorating for a long time - I believe she died of a broken heart.

I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.

Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.

When Brazil lose, someone has to be guilty, and it's always Rivaldo. It's different with Romario. He plays in Brazil, and they love him more. I'm treated like a foreign player.

I think there's an incredible amount of people who know not only what we're feeling but know people who have lost their lives to gun violence.

If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.

How I've always felt is that the fun in gymnastics got taken away from me too soon.

My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time.

I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.

The living wander away, we don't hear from them for months, years—but the dead move in with us to stay.

In the end, the war in Vietnam was much like any other. There were those who profited. Those it devoured. And then there were those for whom there are no words.

Christ, I think I'd grow old if I lost you.

The sun was shining brightly on the day that I died. It blazed from the heavens. It sang from the skies. On a day the world seemed born again, the HMS Nightingale met her end. She took us with her, every one of us: the Old Man, me, the Doc, the Chief, the babyfaced killer in A-Turret, the fat man from Swansea, all the rest. She took us to the bottom. Saved our souls.

A hundred hundred heartbeats... whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.

I won't let you go! I love you, Dog!' 'There will be other dogs and friends, and loves' whispered the Dog. 'You have found your family, your heritage, and you have earned a high place in the world. I love you too, but my time with you has passed.

But the Dog was gone forever. Lirael

For diversification to work as a salve for the pains of loss, you must avoid looking at losses or gains in isolation.

The sting of losing money, for example, often leads investors to pull out of the stock market unwisely when prices dip.

In essence, the endowment effect is really just another manifestation of loss aversion: People

Two teddy bears are gone!" I smiled and nodded.

Sometimes love just keeps a grieving person company. — Jeanette Gardner Littleton —

The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful and more wonderful in all its evolved forms than two souls who look at each other straight on. And there is nothing more woeful and soul-saddening than when they are parted...everything in the world rejoices in the touch, and everything in the world laments in the losing.