Quotes About Loss

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

The last thing I ever thought would ever happen to me was losing my legs.

I'm always disappointed when we lose, and it's happened quite a few times.

When Hillel died, it was during one of the happiest times of my life. I was married and completely in love and had a baby on the way.

In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.

I love my father, and I believe in him. And he lost to Dan Quayle. I had a hard time understanding how that could happen.

Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're having a hard time.

Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

Saying goodbye to close ones is always the hardest.

Losing my grandmother was one of the hardest things I ever had to go through.

When you lose a mother or father, it's still the hardest time of your life.

My poverty taught me a lot. If someone dies, I cannot cry as I have seen so much hardship and death. I went to shoot even the day my dad had died. Death is reality.

If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.

I had a harsh lesson in 1996, when I lost four times to Andres Gomez on clay.

I've had to sell a lot of art, which I've hated to do because I really love the art I have.

I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose... you lose to gain.

When you go through hell, your own personal hell, and you have lost - loss of fame, loss of money, loss of career, loss of family, loss of love, loss of your own identity that I experienced in my own life - and you've been able to face the demons that have haunted you... I appreciate everything that I have.

I always try to have fun, because that's why I like playing basketball; I love it. And sometimes it's hard when you lose.

Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.

When Stuart passed away, I was so young and so selfish about living and having fun.

In 1996, I was the head coach at Brigham Young University. And I got a call from my dad, and he said my brother had been murdered by du Pont. And it just infuriated me to just no end. And I think I destroyed everything in my office.

Wars are hard to look at head-on.

In the early to mid-'90s, everywhere I turned, someone had died. It wasn't just people in bands. It was the people I was hanging out with. At some point, I thought, 'I may be heading down that road.'