Loss Effect Quotes

Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

A loss is horrible, and it's even worse in the UFC.

Defeats are always tough, whatever you have lost, and they affect me the same way they affect anyone who loses a match - no more or less.

When my son was in his teens, he was a really fine drummer. He was asked in an interview if he would consider going into the business. And he said, 'Why would I ever go into the business that took my mother from me?'

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.

Being robbed hurts - not physically, but from what it does to your pride.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.

I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.

For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.

I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.

That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they were all but unbearable now assert themselves in the most appealing way, and what was least to your liking the day before yesterday becomes in the limousine behind the hearse a cause not only for sympathetic amusement but for admiration

It is good to get goals, but it is quite depressing if we don't win.

I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different.