Unfathomable Loss Quotes

During these times there was a pestilence, by which the whole human race came near to being annihilated …. For it did not come in a part of the world nor upon certain men, nor did it confine itself to any season of the year, so that from such circumstances it might be possible to find subtle explanations of a cause, but it embraced the entire world, and blighted the lives of all men, though differing from one another in the most marked degree, respecting neither sex nor age.

Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine equivalent to ease the acute pain, and death, not uncommonly, is violent and grisly. The suffering of a suicidal is private and inexpressible, leaving family members, friends and colleagues to deal with an almost unfathomable kind of loss, as well as guilt. Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.

If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.

Nothing could have survived our life.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.

The 9 million soldiers who died in the First World War… essentially died in vain.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

God, I hope she is found alive.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

Nancy was a very special person, too beautiful for this world. I feel so privileged to have loved her and been loved by her.

I can't imagine, as a father, losing my son.

It's very hard to lose someone who's the closest person to you in your life.

I was 9 years old when my father - a strong, vibrant man in his early 40s - died of a heart attack. He was such a central figure in our lives that losing him was a terrible shock to all of us, my mother in particular.

I don't think it's ever really easy to lose a loved one, especially your mother.

I just don't think human beings are designed to have that big of a swing of emotions. I mean, I'm standing in Victory Lane literally seconds after Dale Earnhardt died. Dale Earnhardt was not only my car owner that day, my first victory in 463 tries, but he was my dear friend, too.

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

My son Andrew was an extraordinary young man, loved and admired by all who knew him. His accidental death is a terrible tragedy.