Loss Quotes

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefi...

You can't go home again

You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back...

Come up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back a...

On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of th...

God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who ga...

In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard ...

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helpl...

I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath th...

COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!”In the deep valley, in the twilight, the apple trees were on the eve of...

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he w...

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her ag...

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like s...

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't...

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot...

Your image has receded till it is like the thinnest shadow of the old moon... a thin silver edge app...

The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was ...

The lost glove is happy.

His heart missed a beat and never regretted the lovely loss.

The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehen...

Isn’t it complicated to be human, though?” she said. “Animals seem to give up their lives so natural...

Walk openly, Marian used to say. Love even the threat and the pain, feel yourself fully alive, cast ...

The truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the s...

On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several ext...

the inletour friend looks as he didwhen we first knew him,and until I wake I believeI will die of gr...

I whisper over to myself the way of loss, the names of the dead. One by one, we lose our loved ones,...

It wasn’t you, it wasn’t me,Up there, two thousand feet aboveA New York street. We’re safe and free,...

She had conquered, but she had also necessarily lost much. Perhaps what she had lost was not worth k...

But this time as soon as he moved she began to fade. He stopped at once, not breathing again, motion...

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

But thou art with us, with us in the past,The present, with us in the times to come.There is no grie...

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothin...

The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;Little we...

Surprised by joy- impatient as the WindI turned to share the transport-- Oh! with whomBut thee, deep...

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way,but what I reject is more numerous,denser, mo...

What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to ...

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying ‘This, too, shall pass.’ For a tim...

Following Michael Brown's death, I went to Ferguson and met with his parents. I stood with them as t...

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappe...

The catchers delight in the moment so frozen but soon discover that the nightingale expires, its cle...

I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life.Now, with the new feeling t...

Memories of that which we have lost are curious things - weeks, months, even years may pass without ...

Valentine reposes within the walls of Paris, and to leave Paris is like losing her a second time.""M...

Sweet for a little even to fear, and sweet, O love, to lay down fear at love’s fair feet; Shall not ...

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

Even as I hold youI think of you as someone gonefar, far away. Your eyes the colorof pennies in a bo...

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone a...

And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the d...

And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the d...

The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, f...

Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular cata...

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at wh...

Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a t...

Our stars are not where we last admired them. Our homes crumble and we don't know which place to lon...

No one else was as close and as open, No one else so boiled my blood, Even he, who consigned me to t...

The thing about old friends is not that they love you, but that they know you. They remember that di...

A few cold words on yonder stone, A corpse as cold as they can be -­ Vain words, and mouldering dust...

Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning ...

all the tall mad mountains of her mind

Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune meansan acid test of friendship.I w...

Some aching beauty comes with huge loss, although maybe not right away, when it would be helpful. Li...

You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news i...

If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly b...

She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witne...

I’d won the worldbut like aforsaken explorer,I’d lostmy map.

I am, to be sure, afraid that if you knew me that you wouldn’t love me. But this must be faced…I fea...

She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As re...

The light in that room was a glow; I seem to remember the color green, or perhaps flowers. A pale gr...

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched ...

Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of...

Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if ...

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he...

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something ha...

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the hear...

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my ...

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the...

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were m...

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physi...

You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run o...

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could ...

I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But ...

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon b...

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-...

Heartbreak is an altogether different thing. Disappointment doesn't grow into heartbreak, nor does f...

Grief seems to create losses within us that reach beyond our awareness--we feel as if we're missing ...

Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the w...

Because she is in God’s hands.’ But if so, she was in God’s hands all the time, and I have seen what...

Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single min...

One never meets just Cancer, or War, or Unhappiness (or Happiness). One only meets each hour or mome...

Because she is in God's hands.' But if so, she was in God's hands all the time, and I have seen what...

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, ...

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doom...

But what am I to do? I must have some drug, and reading isn't a strong enough drug now. By writing i...

Why do I make room in my mind for such filth and nonsense? Do I hope that if feeling disguises itsel...

If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comf...

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one...