Loss Of Friends Father Quotes

I had a very full life, with pains and losses, of course. I lost all the people I was closest to: my partner, my father, and my best friends, but I can't complain. I am 91 years old and I am still here at my desk. ~ Giovanna Cau

But Republicans put God and family on their side and 'we like that. The Scripture says Jesus wants us to be about his Father's business.' Their faith had guided them through a painful loss of family, friends, neighbors, frogs, turtles, and trees [from the pollution left by petrochemical companies in Louisiana's Cancer Alley]. ~ Arlie Russell Hochschild

No parent should have to bury a child ... No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to bury sons. It is not in the natural order of things.
I buried my son. In a potter's field. In a field of Blood. In empty, acrid silence. There was no funeral. There were no mourners. His friends all absent. His father dead. His sisters refusing to attend. I discovered his body alone, I dug his grave alone, I placed him in a hole, and covered him with dirt and rock alone. I was not able to finish burying him before sundown, and I'm not sure if that affected his fate ...
I begrudge God none of this. I do not curse him or bemoan my lot. And though my heart keeps beating only to keep breaking--I do not question why.
I remember the morning my son was born as if it was yesterday. The moment the midwife placed him in my arms, I was infused with a love beyond all measure and understanding. I remember holding my son, and looking over at my own mother and saying, "Now I understand why the sun comes up at day and the stars come out at night. I understand why rain falls gently. Now I understand you, Mother" ...
I loved my son every day of his life, and I will love him ferociously long after I've stopped breathing. I am a simple woman. I am not bright or learn-ed. I do not read. I do not write. My opinions are not solicited. My voice is not important ... On the day of my son's birth I was infused with a love beyond all measure and understanding ... The world tells me ~ Stephen Adly Guirgis

Eventually my father bought a vacation house for us in Port Saint Lucie, Florida. My dad's friend had died, so my father bought the house from his widow. We would go down there once a year, and my father believed that he had bought a good investment property. Twelve years later he would sell it at a loss. Almost immediately after the sale, Club Med built a resort there near where the New York Mets would set up their spring training camp soon after. I've tracked articles since then about how Port Saint Lucie has had the fastest growing home prices in the country. When I told my friends at Rye Country Day that we had bought a second home in Florida, they were unimpressed because it was not Palm Beach. When I told my friends in Tarrytown that we had bought a house in Florida, they were sad and asked me when my family was moving. Gosh, poor people can be really dumb sometimes. ~ Greg Fitzsimmons

When I was a child, an angel came to say,
A true friend is coming my warrior to sweep you away,
It won't be easy the path because it leads through hell,
But if you're faithful, it will be the greatest story to tell,
You will move God's daughters to a place of hope,
Your story will teach everyone there is nothing they can't cope,
You will suffer a lot, but not one tear will you waste,
Because for all that you do for me, you will be graced,
For I am bringing you someone that wants to travel your trail,
Someone you already met when you passed through heaven's veil,
A warrior, a friend that whispers your heart's song,
Someone that will run with you and pull your spirit along,
Don't you see the timing was love's fated throw,
Because I put you both there to help one another grow,
I am the writer of all great stories your chapters were written by me,
You suffered, you cried because I needed you to see,
That your faith in my ending goes far beyond two,
It was going to change more hearts than both of you knew,
So hush my child and wait for my loving hand,
The last chapter is not written and still in the sand,
It is up to you to finish, before the tide washes it away,
All that is in your heart, I've put there for you to say,
This is not about winning, loss or pain,
I made you the way you are because true love stories are insane,
I wrote you in heaven as I sat on its s ~ Shannon L. Alder

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends. ~ Abraham Lincoln

The loss of friends is a tax on age! ~ Ninon De L'Enclos

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

My name is Sherman Alexie and I was born from loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss.

And loss. ~ Sherman Alexie

Friendship is like an investment; the best type yields the best profit for you! It's not just about making friends; it's about making right friends for the right reasons! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support. ~ Patti Smith

Father, we come to You, Father, in the name of the Father, Father we come to You, Father, Father, just, just, Father, Father ... ' You don't talk to you friends like that. 'Ed, Ed, come over, Ed, Ed, Ed, you are, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, ooh, Ed, Ed, Ed' - he wouldn't be your friend anymore if you did that! Like, 'You keep saying Ed ... my name's Joe! ~ Tim Hawkins

Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life. ~ Sigmund Freud

Major fluctuations in weight gain and loss are detrimental to your health and embarrassing to explain to your friends and family. ~ Linda Sunshine

I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames. ~ Toni Morrison

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

It is difficult for me to talk about some of these things without reliving the extreme emotions and loss one always feels for the untimely deaths of acquaintances, family and friends, all because they stood up against the unlawful tyranny of non-Indian America. ~ Leonard Peltier

I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most. ~ Jared Padalecki

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened. ~ Wayne Newton

Neurology's favourite word is 'deficit', denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function: loss of speech, loss of language, loss of memory, loss of vision, loss of dexterity, loss of identity and myriad other lacks and losses of specific functions (or faculties). ~ Oliver Sacks

How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends,
friends of friends ... ~ Laurel Burch

Of course there's some things that I would have liked to have ... none of my friends growing up had their father in the house. None of 'em. We had uncles and stuff like that, but nobody had a father in the house, none of my friends. ~ Kenyon Martin

My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job. ~ Barbara Holland

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits. ~ Catherine Helen Spence

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist. ~ Ray Conniff

But friends didn't wipe other friends' memories. ~ Tui T. Sutherland

I don't know who my parents were. I know nothing about my inheritance. I could be Jewish; I could be part Negro; I could be Irish; I could be Russian. I am spiritually a mix anyway, but I did have a solid childhood fortunately, because of some wonderful women who brought me up. I never had a father or a man in the house, and that was a loss, but you live with that loss. ~ James A. Michener

When friends abandoned him, Paul asked God not to count their actions against them. He followed the example of Jesus, who prayed for the Father to forgive His persecutors. What's your response when friends let you down? Forgiveness is the choice that pleases God every time. ~ Charles Stanley

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Lord Loss sows all the sorrows of the world
Lord Loss seeds the grief-starched trees
In the center of the web, lowly Lord Loss bows his head
Mangled hands, naked eyes
Fanged snakes his soul line
Curled inside like textured sin
Bloody, curdled sheets for skin
In the center of the web, vile Lord Loss torments the dead
Over strands of red, Lord Loss crawls
Dispensing pain, despising all
Shuns friends, nurtures foes
Ravages hope, breeds woe
Drinks moons, devours suns
Twirls his thumbs till the reaper comes
In the center of the web, lush Lord Loss is all that's left ~ Darren Shan

I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies ~ George W. Bush

I am a father, and I know the feel of being a father. Why wouldn't I want my gay friends to also be happy parents? ~ Juan Pablo Galavis

When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of? ~ Kiran Desai

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly. ~ Laozi

Because we had known the good times, I think my brother and I felt the loss more acutely. My father's waning presence, his chronic absence, his disappearance. Now he was just a memory. ~ Bryan Cranston

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears. ~ Criss Jami

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain. ~ Frank Lowy

There were different categories of friends in Vince's opinion. Golf friends, work friends, old school friends, shipboard friends...but friend friends were harder to come by. ~ Kate Atkinson

My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them. ~ Steven Herrick

Her question was clear-
"Father, where does the Loss reside?"
In the sighs?
Cheeks with tears wiped?
A lost appetite?
Owning a room confined?
Or in the smiles all falsified?

Thus, the Father decide,
It is no matter to hide, he replied-
"I think its deep inside,
Probably,
In the layers of your soul,
Where the body provides it,
Ample food to be-
Magnified, multiplied, intensified.
But once you clarify,
That its not to be occupied inside,
It starves of supplies,
And dies.

So child, when there is loss,
Make sure you refuse to invite it inward,
And absolutely never make it your lifelong parasite. ~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

But how can one regret what, to the mind, has never existed? Even loss is an inaccurate description, for what loss is without the awareness of losing? ~ Nicole Krauss

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover. ~ Ouida

The greatest loss lies in our inability to accept loss. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am sorry for your loss as well, Joffrey" the dwarf said.
"What loss?"
"Your royal father? A large fierce man with a black beard; you'll recall him if you try. He was king before you ~ George R.R. Martin

I am sorry for your loss." "I had a new hand made, of gold." He showed her. "Very nice. Will they make you a gold father too?" Lady Genna's voice was sharp. "Tywin was the loss I meant. ~ George R R Martin

We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us. ~ Perry Brass

Weight gains aren't failures – they're learning curves. ~ Rachel Stevenson

All the great words, it seemed to Connie were cancelled, for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now and dying from day to day. ~ D.H. Lawrence

There are many kinds of loss embedded in a loss - the loss of the person, and the loss of the self you got to be with that person. And the seeming loss of the past, which now feels forever out of reach. ~ Meghan O'Rourke

Leaving yourself behind is the worst loss a person can know. ~ A. Lynn

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball. ~ Steve Nash

When Mother and I learned that Father was dying, Father asked me to sing for him," she said. "Mother insisted that I only sing songs from their youthful days together. She wanted me to take her mind off Father's pain, But when she stepped away, Father asked me to sing songs about pain. About loss. About the world without him. When I played those songs, he would cry. It was the only way he could cry. And now it's the only way I know to cry."

"We need you to lead us in crying, Lesyl, or we'll drown in unshed tears." [King Cal-Raven replied] ~ Jeffrey Overstreet

My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you. ~ Boy George

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends. ~ Joel Osteen

Father,
you died once,
salted down at fifty-nine,
packed down like a big snow angel,
wasn't that enough? ~ Anne Sexton

But now, seeing these letters his father wrote to June Bailey Roe, seeing his father's painful devotion to someone who simply wasn't real - a daughter he never had - Wade is unable to suppress his dread. All that love, all those feelings, all that pain, fastened to nothing, a terrible, drifting chaos. His future loss of mind becomes the new premise of his life, and he feels, already, the loss of the things he loves, feels himself trying to find some other way to hold on to them. ~ Emily Ruskovich

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example. ~ Jonathan Lethem

Seems like I'm in a dream. Prince dead at 57. There are no words to describe this loss. ~ Sharon Osbourne

I was eight years old when my father was murdered. It is almost impossible to describe the pain of losing a parent to a senseless murder ... But even as a child, one thing was clear to me: I didn't want the killer, in turn, to be killed. I remember lying in bed and praying, Please, God. Please don't take his life, too. I saw nothing that could be accomplished in the loss of one life being answered with the loss of another. ~ Kerry Kennedy

His theory is that life is loss,' said Myrna after a moment. 'Loss of parents, loss of loves, loss of jobs. So we have to find a higher meaning in our lives than these things and people. Otherwise we'll lose ourselves. ~ Louise Penny

As cartoonist Jules Feiffer puts it: I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's walk, my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father. ~ Tara Brach

A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss. ~ Publilius Syrus

No one seems to have noticed that a loss of a sense of shame means a loss of privacy; a loss of privacy means a loss of intimacy; and a loss of intimacy means a loss of depth. There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything. ~ Theodore Dalrymple

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted. ~ Marion Ross

I grew up with white friends, Asian friends - Vietnamese, Chinese, Pacific Islanders. I had Hispanic friends, not just Mexican friends, but Guatemalan friends, Honduran friends, and we knew the difference, you know? ~ Ryan Coogler

After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great Depression, our father died suddenly one winter night when we were small, leaving us to learn about loss before we even knew its name. ~ Virginia Euwer Wolff

And the point of Rachel the Film should really have been to express how awful and shitty that loss was, that she would have become a person with a long awesome life if she had been allowed to continue living, and that this was just a stupid meaningless loss, a motherfucking loss, a loss loss loss fucking loss, there was no fucking meaning to it, there was nothing that could come out of it ... ~ Jesse Andrews

It's what the loss uncovers in you that brings on despair, not the loss itself. ~ Nicci French

Sometimes the opposite of loss is loss. ~ Penelope Scambly Schott

All change is loss, and all loss must be mourned. ~ Harry Levinson

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. ~ Charlton Heston

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people. ~ Matt Taibbi

Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow. ~ Joyce Rachelle

My father always told me to wisen up, son.
Cause if you hung with nine broke friends, you're bound to be the tenth one. ~ PMD

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father. ~ Sigmund Freud

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified. ~ Talib Kweli

Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye. ~ Sathya Sai Baba

All stress is ultimately related to loss or the fear of loss. ~ David Simon

Grief, regret, pain, and of course anger. Another loss. And when you compare this one loss to the hundreds and maybe thousands that occur people stop thinking they matter. It does matter though. Every loss matters. ~ Natalie Valdes

We are some people's friends only when they are with us. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference. ~ Leila Aboulela

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. ~ Stefan Kanfer

My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other. ~ Marina Abramovic

You'd be surprised how little voice you have when you lose everything. ~ Alexandra Bracken

I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress. ~ Brent Runyon

Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring. ~ Doris Grumbach

'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss. ~ Cathleen Schine

There is no such thing as a paper loss. A paper loss is a very real loss. ~ Jim Rogers

From a spiritual perspective, what is it that we must learn from loss? When we think deeply we realize that loss is an opening through which we can question our superficial existence and move towards something better. ~ Pulkit Sharma

I know, having myself lost a parent too soon, that being without a father will not be easy for you. But try to remember that loss is an incredible stroke of luck. Yes, luck. For loss caries with it two truths: that you have loved, and hat you yourself have had the good fortune to live a little longer. ~ Camille Pagan

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her. ~ Jennifer Aniston

My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P. ~ T.I.

But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends. ~ Robert Foster Bennett

Our demons are friends, ~ Tan Redding

If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right. ~ Marlon James