Loss Trauma Quotes

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.

My parents passed away when I was a teenager, so I had to learn different survival techniques, I think, in comedy. You know, using comedy as a pressure release, as a release valve in life really kept my sanity.

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

If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?

I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.

Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.

The best way to get over a dog's death is to get another soon.

In the early to mid-'90s, everywhere I turned, someone had died. It wasn't just people in bands. It was the people I was hanging out with. At some point, I thought, 'I may be heading down that road.'

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

Was it harder to die, or harder to be the one who survived?

A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.

It was very painful to be so close to a World Cup final.

My mom loves me a lot, and I think if I was taken from her, she would have lost her mind.

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, and I've had to live that as though it's real. And it can take a really big emotional toll on someone.

I wanted to build a family very strongly because I lost my family when I was 15, 14, and I missed the family unit very much.

People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends or parents is not the same. To lose a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows all hope.

There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.

Of all my travels in America, nothing has affected me more, nothing even close I have to tell you, than the time I have spent with the mothers and fathers who have lost their children to violence spilling across our borders, which we can solve, we have to solve it!