Quotes About Loss

Literally a headline destroyed my life and took away everything that I'd ever built.

You can't go to Amazon and order a book on how you handle grief. There's books on it, sure. But there's no tried and true manual. You just have to live that out. There's no formula to heal.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.

Having your heart broken is like going through grief, it's really hard.

My grandmother passed away from diabetes. And my father died from heart disease as a result of diabetes. They were in their early 60s.

My music comes from heartbreak - from feeling what it's like to lose everything and not being able to express it through words because it doesn't make sense.

Especially with grief and heartbreak, you can go through these things and think, 'I will never be whole again.'

My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never happend before. I couldn't cope. It was heartbreak time. I thought it was the end of the world.

'When You Were Mine' is about heartbreak.

My biggest heartbreak was on Dancing With the Stars,' not winning with Zendaya, honestly.

Heartbreak is all the same.

We've all had someone break our hearts or have been fired from a job or have been cheated.

If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.

My wife is already in Heaven.

My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.

'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' by Mitch Albom - I read it in eight hours and blubbed my eyes out when it finished. I've thought about the story every day since.

I've been blessed in many ways, but none of the heights from football can ever compare to the depths you go through when you lose a child.

I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.

I held 18, 19, or 20-year-old men in my arms, and I heard their last words, and I saw them take their last breath.

Sometimes, what's helpful is to admit that we are discouraged and admit that we are at a loss.

In the aftermath of a marriage, you feel helpless and hapless.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'

It is the taste of helplessness when you see your beloved fading away like a dream and you cannot help him.