Quotes About Loss

'Lose My Cool' is the second track on my EP dedicated to a stage in the grieving process. This track represents anger. I really bottled a lot up after my mother passed, and one day, I couldn't handle it anymore and just exploded on all of my friends and family. It was a very passive way of dealing with things, not very healthy.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

I am dying not just to attempt to end the barbarity of H-blocks or to gain the rightful recognition of political prisoners, but primarily because what is lost here is lost for the Republic.

Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5.

It wasn't like anybody said, 'Oh, Ronald Reagan will have a landslide in 1980.' In fact, you look back at the Dukakis numbers, the Perot numbers, there was always this presumption that the Republican was going to lose. Not just that the Democrat would win, but that the Republican was going to lose.

Like a lot of people have said, it's not a bad loss to lose to Mark Hunt, so it's really like a learning lesson.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

When something you love gets taken away, it hurts you.

It hurts, man. When I watch people I love so much just deteriorate in front of me and I can't do anything about it.

Losing drives me mad. It hurts.

Every game that you lose it hurts, but especially when you lead 2-1, and you lose 4-2.

Losing hurts, it always hurts, and it should hurt.

Not being able to end the last game of my college career with a win, it really hurts.

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.

All of my husbands have robbed me blind.

I have friends who have lost husbands and have gone off and tried different things. Nothing wrong with that.

People identify with being heartbroken. We've all been heartbroken, haven't we? I've been dumped, and it feels horrible.

The year after my father died, I started football training. He was the drive for me; he was my idol. I said to myself, 'I have to run just like him. I have to shoot just like him.'

When artists die early, they become idols even more.

Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.

The fact that I lost my mum was horrible, and if I could change anything, I would definitely change that.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

When we ignore the will of the people, people lose.

When it comes to the grieving process, we all try to ignore that feeling - but it's important to grieve. Even if something's happened for the best, you need to take that moment to feel something.