Quotes About Loss

From the peak in 2007 to the trough in 2009, Americans lost $11 trillion of net worth for households and businesses.

I lost in my junior year of college in the NAIA national semifinals in 2005 and I'm not over that. I got inside leg tripped by Jake Dieffenbach and failed to go to the national title match. I don't get over things.

The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.

'The Taking' is the closest thing to a 'concept' record that I have ever been involved with. Pain, loss, triumph, and redemption. Life. Bring it.

My father's money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job.

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.

I think about me and my dad taking a road trip from Phoenix to Nashville when I was 19. He's no longer here with me, but I still drive that same 1994 Chevy truck. I never have bought a new car.

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people.

It wouldn't be 'True Blood' if somebody didn't die.

When you love someone absolutely and want them to be their truest self - even though that means losing them in some capacity - that is the most important thing.

I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them - the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible.

Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

I never truly got to know my grandfather before he passed away, but he inspires me to search more deeply to understand myself.

Like Obama before him, Trump will escalate in Afghanistan. Like Obama before him, Trump will lose in Afghanistan. And the rest of us, shamefully, will continue to look the other way.

The truth is, I should have never done teaching. I did teaching because I didn't have the bottle to have a go at comedy. Whether there's any gain to comedy is not for me to say. But certainly it was no loss to teaching.

If there was a way to bring someone back, would you do it, no matter what the consequences might be? I know that for me, my logical mind says, 'Of course not!' But the truth is, when you lose someone who is so close to you, it's as if they are a part of you; there's always one more thing to say, one more moment you wish you'd had.

We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.