Quotes About Loss

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.

My daughter had cancer in both eyes - and we could save just one.

My loss to Marquardt was just one of those things. I made a mistake and got caught. I think I had a lot more to offer in that fight, but he caught me before I had a chance to show it.

It took me a long time to write again because Katrina destroyed the home I loved, and that robbed me of hope.

Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage.

The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?

I was born in London but, after my dad passed away, we moved to Kent for a fresh start.

I didn't know I would cry when I actually cut my hair, but I felt empty when something kept dropping and disappearing.

I think when Kevin Nash put himself on the booking committee and then gave me my first loss, that was beginning of the end.

I lost my father when I was four, so maybe that was always in the background. Losing my brother kicked it into overdrive. When you get to such an intense place of suffering, you either have the choice to continue suffering or figure a way not to.

I lost my father. He had diabetes and high BP and so he died of kidney failure.

I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That's because I loved her so much. I want to live so I can carry out the essence of what she has shown me: kindness and goodness.

Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45.

The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child.

I've only ever kissed one girl: my Dorothy. We met in 1915 and married in 1918. She died in 1970.

To feel love is the most incredible feeling in the world. To lose it will nearly end you and take you to your knees, but there's always more.

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.

I've worked in a mortuary and seen the consequences of what guns and knives do to people.

Until you go through a bereavement, you don't know how you will cope. What we have found out is that life is completely different. The foundations that you have been building all your life are knocked down.

When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him, to search for him, knowing he's out there some place.

Kobe was like a brother to me, for sure.

My mom grew up without a father because he died in the Korean War. And my grandmother, her life was completely upended because of that.

The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.