Quotes About Loss

Broadchurch' is shot through with the fear of being a parent: what's the most horrific loss you can imagine and how could you go on living afterwards?

The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

When you get beat it is the worst feeling in football, it is horrific.

Only those who have lost their parents will know what it is like. It is horrific, it is hard and it breaks your heart, it really does.

Non-fictionalised accounts of horrific accidents, bereavement, and the outrages of officialdom tend to move us deeply.

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.

I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.

I've won the Derby with the best horse and I've lost the Derby with the best horse.

I've had to put horses down on the farm before, and it's very, very sad.

My father, I spent a lot of time with him at the hospital. I was with him when he took his last breath, but I felt something coming from him into my hand and into my body.

My grandpa and I loved Emeril. It was all he wanted to watch when he was in the hospital dying. When I met Emeril later, it was so emotional.

I lost a sister to pneumonia, when she was 2 years old. She died at home, not in a hospital, where maybe her life could have been saved.

When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

A kid is always locked down inside their family. In the film, I felt like talking about loss and death, which we've had a lot of right now, but you know, the experience of lockdown maybe gave me more courage to believe we could create cinema while all locked in our houses.

When Dusty Rhodes passed away, that hit me hard because I couldn't call him any more. He couldn't bust my chops. He made a huge difference in my life on so many levels.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

I've been on some very good horses which have died, and that's very tough to take. But as much as we love the horses, and care for them, human life is obviously more important. Some good friends of mine have died or been paralysed while doing a job we all love.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility.

I've lost friends, perhaps dozens. But I've gained hundreds, thousands - who knows? - of allies.