Quotes About Loss

I just shot John Lennon.

I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.

My second film 'Johnny Gaddar' got delayed because of financial reasons. The film was taken over by another production house and in the process we lost a year.

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

I don't let a lot of people know about my dad dying on 9/11. It's not a way to introduce yourself. So I never told anybody, and then I would do jokes about it... and I think people thought I was lying about it. Which would be crazy!

I did lose my grandfather. He was special. He would tell me jokes, and he'd always be there to support me. I do wish I'd get the chance to see him again, because he was very special to my heart.

I think part of me doesn't want to remember him, for fear of missing him too much.

We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound.

she felt] sorry for herself, for getting older, for being mortal, for all the music she still wanted to hear, the books she intended to read, the places she had meant to visit, the things she had promised herself she'd learn one day [...] and probably never would because time was beginning to feel like a fast express train that no longer stopped at all the stations.

When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and usually resort to cheap psychology. A sense of fatalism is the only form of relief left.

It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life.

Now that the time that calls me to depart draws near, I think, or will not be too long, like one whom losses make acute and wise, I keep on wondering where I left the way that leads to a safe haven on the right: and on the one hand I am stung by shame and sorrow making me turn back; and on the other cannot break the habit of a pleasure grown so strong that now it dares to play for time with death.

But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss.

I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.

It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

If you are not happy for a minute, then you lost 60 seconds of happiness in your life

A man dies as often as he loses his friends.

The devil is the source of temptation, but succumbing to temptation is our own doing. Only if we come face to face with our own sinfulness, do we begin to be grateful for the power of God's forgiveness. Only if we recognize the connection between sin and death, do we begin to probe the meaning of Christ's death and resurrection. Only if we experience the evil we have done, do we begin to understand how God has brought redemption out of loss, love out of hatred.

Uno de los hallazgos claros de la economía conductual experimental es que las personas son mucho más sensibles a las pérdidas que a las ganancias.

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me The pang of all the partings gone, And partings yet to be.

All which I took from thee I did but take,Not for thy harms,But just that thou might'st seek it in My arms.