The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.
Suddenly it was gone. I'd lost more than my voice and my career. I'd lost my best friend.
If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.
One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic
When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
Losing my sister to cancer was... That was the worst thing in the world, man.
My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.
I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble.
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.
Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
Valdez was a devastating experience for our corporation. What emerged from that was a commitment to develop a systematic approach to managing risk in advance.
All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.
I'd have to say losing the title to Ali in '74 was the lowest moment in sports for me. It was the most devastating thing in my boxing career, and it still hurts to this day.
If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.
Even a 30-year-old man whose wife dies is eleven times more likely to commit suicide than a 30-year-old man whose wife is living. At age 30, when men can bury themselves in their jobs and are physically and financially attractive to women, the loss of the one woman a man loves is so devastating it is often not softened even by the opportunities for many women... in brief, it is the loss of love that devastates men.
What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?
The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.
It is something you can't predict, and it is the huge sadness in your life, losing a child.
Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world.
I am devastated by the loss of my beautiful wife Jane. She was my best friend.
Every officer, every deputy, every agent we lose is one too many. It's a loss to our organizations, of course, it's a loss to our community, and most importantly, it's a devastating loss to the loved ones they leave behind.
