Loss Quotes

I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't sto...

...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence a...

How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.

Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a serv...

She had worn the Morgenstern ring since Jace had left it for her, and sometimes she wondered why. Di...

I knew a girl, once, immortal like me-""And she was with someone mortal?" said Alec. "What happened?...

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

And she wept as well for the others lost in the Dark War, and she wept for her mother and the loss s...

We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who lov...

He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she ...

Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

Will. For a moment her heart hesitated. She remembered when Will had died, her agony, the long night...

I did not think you would be angry, Jem burst out, and it was like ice cracking across a frozen wate...

Sometimes people get taken away from you whether you want it or not. And sometimes that hurts so muc...

All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfrie...

she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't...

You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I f...

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happ...

I have seen enough, too, to know that it is not always the youngest and best who are spared to those...

For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, an...

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason ...

He crosses the front room, which he calls his study, and comes down the staircase. The stairs turn a...

On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, a...

Anything you can acquire is only another thing you'll lose

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. An...

And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to ...

His consolation was that at least he had known her as the world had not, and the pain of living with...

You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place ...

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and t...

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...