Quotes About Loss

My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.

When you lose someone, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have

They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

What came is gone forever every time

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.

Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.

I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.

Father says it will come in time. "Time heals," he says. I don't tell him that I don't know what time is.

Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way.

It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.