Quotes About Loss

They are human, after all, and it is human nature to transform loss into a virtue. So that it might be lived with, so that it might be justified.

He'd seen enough of life to know he wouldn't miss it much. His only regret was the grief his death would level upon those who cared for him. Venes

I have one chocolate Lab named Jasmine. I also had a rat named Sky.

The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama.

My father died in 1957, just before I was born. My mother went to her Jewish aunt, who slammed the door in her face.

Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat.

I let football drive me crazy. If we lost, I would shut myself away for two or three days, not sleeping, torturing myself about what I did.

So often animals come into shelters where their owners have passed away. And they've been perfect pets for most of their lives. So there's an adult animal sitting in a cage that's completely trained, sleeps through the night, is past that puppy stage.

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

We are all shocked and saddened by the devastating and untimely loss of Kimbo Slice, a beloved member of the Bellator family.

I do think about how different my life might have been had my mother not died so young, but I try not to delve into it too deeply, as it's like 'Sliding Doors,' isn't it? You just don't know.

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.

When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.

In the beginning, I wanted to work with Slim Duncan. He actually passed away right around when I started making beats.

The America I love is slipping away.

When you lose games against Slovakia and England, you're going to get the criticism that goes with it.

Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.

I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world.

I fought Dan Henderson in 2009, and I lost, and that was at UFC 100 - UFC 100 was the biggest pay-per-view the company's ever done. 1.6 million pay-per-view buys, watched all over the world, and of course, I get knocked out cold after talking lots of smack leading up to the fight. So I got my just desserts in that one.