Quotes About Loss

My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.

It's a big responsibility, I think, when you play somebody who has existed but also somebody who has just recently passed away.

One of the defining experiences of my life came in the mid-1980s. After working for two years as a geologist in Colorado, I lost my job and my career during that long recession.

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

My great frustration is that, more and more, my memories come and go, and friends all my life are not recognized. Many of the things I say and do, I can no longer remember even right afterwards.

These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.

'You Should Be Here' came from a real place. I lost my father... it was right when I was getting my record deal. There's just been so many moments that he hasn't been here for. It's kind of the reason I wrote the song.

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.

Right after my mother died, my dad and I went into the studio and he recorded a song called 'I Found You Among the Roses.'

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.

I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don't be afraid of grieving parents.

There were a lot of manufacturing jobs lost over a long period of time and particularly after - during the Great Recession. We've had some recovery in manufacturing employment as the economy's recovered.

The willed recovery of what's been lost - often forcibly, I suppose - is what keeps me going. It is this reason I found myself a poet and a collector and now a curator: to save what we didn't even know needed saving.

When you're willing to play poker for two days and lose millions of dollars, it's no longer recreation. It's taking over.

Sometimes I long for the parents I didn't have; that's a recurring nightmare.

My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.

I knew that I could never win a referendum in Germany. We would have lost a referendum on the introduction of the euro. That's quite clear. I would have lost, and by seven to three.

I never thought there would be a day when I would have to handle things without my father.