Loss Quotes

I dont know what happens to country.

Now the son whose father's existance in this world is historical and speculative even before the son...

I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said.I know you didn't.I just meant I'd seen some thin...

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as...

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the ambe...

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

You see how I tryTo reach with wordsWhat matters mostAnd how I fail.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a...

When along the pavement,Palpitating flames of life,People flicker around me,I forget my bereavement,...

All the great words, it seemed to Connie were cancelled, for her generation: love, joy, happiness, h...

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate ...

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the d...

I lost someone very close to me and afterward I believed I could have saved him had I been a better ...

Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrö...

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I stopped in St. Bernadette's Cemetery one of my favorite places... The trunks of six giant oaks ris...

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and so...

Grief can destroy you—or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to e...

He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.

The less I have, the less I can lose.

Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy.

Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because...

That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed w...

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would ...

Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her...

Only marriage combines all three forms of companionship - spouse is family, best friend, and permane...

All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory.

I know what it felt . . . like when I . . . thought you were dead, and-" A small gasp for breath, an...

The vivid memory of the woods had blossomed into a visceral longing for the Ridge, so immediate that...

I have been loved," she said, "by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.

I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater. L...

Every new event - everything I did for the rest of my life - would only separate us more and more: d...

I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mo...

You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, bu...

How had I deserved to be so blessed by such confessions? —how had I deserved to be so cursed with th...

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not a...

Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censerSwung by Seraphim whose footfall...

To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was th...

She was brave from excess of grief

They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the str...

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in...

This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doorsMany a frozen night, and merrilyAnswered staid drink...

And thus we all are nighingThe truth we fear to know:Death will end our cryingFor friends that come ...

The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle,...

Another year passed on . The waves of time seemed long since to have swept away all trace of poor Ma...

If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies--mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel i...

She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give h...

It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and ...

Come in! come in !’ he sobbed.‘Cathy, do come. Oh do -once more! Oh! my heart’s darling! hear me thi...

And I, could I stand byAnd see you freeze,Without my right of frost, Death's privilege?

I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T ...

Heart, we will forget him!You and I, to-night!You may forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the li...

One lost easiest what one held in one’s arms— never what one left.

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one ti...

Why must man not marry?" "He cannot marry. He cannot marry," he said angrily. "If he is to lose ever...

I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. P...

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-ter...

Memory lived not in initial possession but in the freed hands, pardoned and freed, and in the heart ...

I am sad when I think that the years go by like sacks that we mark "Returned Empty," sad when I thin...

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then n...

I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be norm...

Where is the land of Luthany,Where is the tract of Elenore?I am bound therefore.'Pierce thy heart to...

The fairest things have fleetest end,Their scent survives their close:But the rose's scent is bitter...

When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived...

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid o...

With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by...

It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

You never fully appreciate what you had until you don’t have it anymore

It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yoursel...

You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remai...

April ended and May came along, but May was even worse than April. In the deepening spring of May, I...

Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are pro...

We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.

For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess co...

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distor...

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings...

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings...

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ...

So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the ...

So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal theloss, no matter how important the t...

Each memory was now the shadow of a shadow of a shadow. The only thing that remained tangible to him...

But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each ot...

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

If there were no life beyond this earth-life, some people I have known would gain immortality by the...

What is so sweet as to awake from a troubled dream and behold a beloved face smiling upon you? I lov...

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those w...

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. ...

Passing beneath the dance hall, thinking again of this book, I realized suddenly that our life had c...

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths ...

The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last fam...

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.