Quotes About Loss

I've had - after my mom passed away - like a lot of resentment, a lot of things that just happened after I lost my mom.

When I started doing stand-up, I resigned from my job as a maths teacher and, three days before I was due to leave, my dad passed away.

My Facebook fans have become my family in a lot of ways, so when that was taken away from me, it felt like a huge part of me was shut down.

My father had a garments business in Delhi which shut down.

I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12 and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but also my work as well.

Unfortunately as the result of the shutdown of the shuttle program, we lost an entire generation of people experience and capable of making risk judgment.

When my dad died, I developed a nervous habit. He was very shy and quiet, and I was like him.

We're all, whether we like it or not, gonna have to deal with bereavement at some point in our lives, and it's something I think, as a society, maybe we shy away from.

I know a lot of people who've lost their siblings and blame themselves.

I don't think you ever really get over losing a sibling, especially when you are with that person every day.

Because I lost a daughter, eight years old, to cystic fibrosis, I think that anytime that I'm dealing with people who, like Andrea Yeager, are trying to help those sick children, I identify very much with them.

My wife Lucy was very sick for nearly three years prior to her death. At one time, I was in the hospital with her for six months.

When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.

The Cowboys fan in me is getting increasingly sick and tired of watching Jerry Jones enable his team to lose without fear.

I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from college. My mother died just before 'Sideways' came out. She knew I was an actor, but she never saw me become successful.

I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

I lost sight in my left eye.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In that painful moment, I was deeply comforted knowing that my father would be able to give others a second chance at life. That is why I encourage everyone to sign up to be a donor.

My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same thing. Every time I hung out with her, I could only think of my recently deceased grandmother. So sometimes a signature scent can be good and sometimes it can be bad.

I didn't know that Left Eye's dad passed away right when she wanted to tell him that she just signed to LaFace Records. After I signed to Jive Records and just before I put out my first album, my mother passed away. It was very odd how much we had in common.

I've always been really nationalistic, and I had a brother killed in Korea. And I think the 'Star Spangled Banner,' even today - and I've heard it a heckuva lot of times, OK - has always been a significant feeling to me.