Maria Callas Quotes

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

I am lucky in that I have never been depressed in my life, but this is the one thing which has really affected me: the loss of my mother as I knew her.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

Losing a parent is always a terrible thing for anybody. It's no more or no less for me.

Suddenly it was gone. I'd lost more than my voice and my career. I'd lost my best friend.

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.

I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic.

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

When my mother passed away I was 20.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.

It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

Mourning never ends for those who've faced unimaginable losses.