Loss Quotes

When's something difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder- if no...

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how grues...

Mid-Term BreakI sat all morning in the college sick bayCounting bells knelling classes to a close.At...

I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he'd ever ...

An Indian’s wealth   Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save.

What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus ha...

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next ti...

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose yo...

Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to t...

Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight.

What you love, you must love all the harder because someday it will be gone.

Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is...

At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come ba...

...she did remember on time when she got her period, sliding open the cupboard under the bathroom si...

The best part, though, was hearing my mother's voice. It was like having her again, coming out from ...

Now the two of them rode silently toward town, both lost in their own thoughts. Their way took them ...

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back...

Bella: How could I live with myself when it’s my fault? None of you should be risking yourselves for...

I said out loud, "Damn you for saving yourself. How come you left me with nothing but to love you an...

Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humm...

If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the econo...

This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music:...

Since I’ve been home I’ve been trying hard to mend my relationship with my mother. Asking her to do ...

Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for...

The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only P...

That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ...

Haymitch isn't thinking of arenas, but something else. "Johanna's back in the hospital."I assumed Jo...

She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You...

That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you d...

I want to tell the rebels that I am alive. That I'm right here in District Eight, where the Capitol ...

The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, rac...

By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by b...

I'm sorry, I didn't mean--""To speak of it?" asked the K'mir. Diane nodded. "You have to, just to bl...

think when it's all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It's like a kaleidoscope of memori...

Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've pas...

She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?''I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. An...

Tiffany found her mind filling up with an invisible gray mist, and in that thought there was nothing...

Tiffany thought of the little spot in the woods where Granny Weatherwax lay. Remembered. And knew th...

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a m...

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...