Quotes About Loss

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

The World Cup has special games, and losing them hurts more than the other ones.

What was scaring me was if we lost, I didn't know how I'd play cricket again. This was such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a World Cup final at Lord's.

It happens so quick. You lose a game; you lose another game; it's a World Cup; media scrutiny; public expectation, and then you almost go into sort of survival mode. We've all been there.

The Brazilian press doesn't allow us to forget the World Cup in 1950, when we lost the final in a full Maracana.

The 1966 World Cup was the high point of my career. We may have lost the semi-final, but Portuguese football was a big winner.

World history is tragic.

No one saw me cry over my dad's death for almost nine years. I hid what I felt, bottling up my emotions so tightly that almost nothing leaked out.

It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.

People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.

She ne'er was really charming till she died.

My birth was managed so rottenly that my mother had eventually to have a hysterectomy, after which she was ill off & on till she dies for obscure reasons when I was just 7.

The first time I fell in love, I was in my 20s, and I loved someone right till I was 31. And then I felt that emotion died within me. I wasn't feeling alive at all.

In Kolkata, I had two bikes till I had an accident and had to give them up.

Even more than getting married or having kids, I found losing a parent is what thrusts you into adulthood. For me it was. That was when the Earth tilted on its axis, and there was a paradigm shift, and I felt like a different person.

Time, the devourer of all things.

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing thing to do, and there are millions of them needing homes. But there is no single time frame to do it in because grieving is an intensely personal experience.

If you have a bereavement in your family, it's a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time passes. It's part of the cycle. It doesn't hurt so much.

How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can't we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers?

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.