Loss Quotes

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

had almost forgotten the wet brush of your kisses… soft as April snowflakes

A star's light still shines even if there's no one to see it, but without someone to remember Jesse, his light will disappear.

An emotionally abusive relationship, in very simplistic terms, is much like standing up in a too hot bath and sinking back in so as not to feel so dizzy.

The things that truly define me can’t be lost.

It could have been avoided. This couch misery spiral, this … loss … I could’ve avoided the bulk of it simply by doing more. I could’ve given a shit...

She didn't know if she was crying because Illukar was going to die, or because Ieskar already had.

She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished.

If you’ve ever lost someone that you love, and I say ‘love’ and not ‘loved’ because even when they’re gone, you still love them, you know that never goes away, but your life changes.

Usually it is through loss that things come to be of value.

In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead.

Poor Ramon.

You can't learn anything from losing someone you love. Any lesson you learn from that isn't a lesson. It's a compromise with life. A lie you tell yourself.

...grief is as much about regret for what you've never had as sadness for what you've lost.

He hadn’t saved her. He hadn’t even bothered trying.

The act of you leaving was just the full stop at the end of a terrible sentence. Fact is, I lost you long before you ever left.

The more we love the more we lose. The more we lose the more we learn. The more we learn the more we love. It comes full circle. Life is the school, love is the lesson. We cannot lose.

Whenever you get something in this world, you lose something too — that's just the way things work.

I'm sometimes scared that I'm forgetting what my dad was like.

Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died.

As a young girl I was told the truth. I knew about death. I was afraid to lose but not afraid to die.

I realize in this moment that all my life I've felt that I deserve to be punished, for wanting so much, for taking so much from this world, from the people who love me.

How many paths had I avoided in life? How many times had I been content to stop at "close enough"--too afraid to push ahead? Too afraid to let go?Too afraid to give up . . . control.

When you've gone through something traumatic, when you've faced death and loss as much as we have, it's only natural that it changes your entire view of life.

I am them. And they are me. All of us, we are each other. There is no such thing as good-bye.

A sword held in vengeance only leads to grief.

If you are too afraid of losing something, it means you didn’t care enough for it in the first place.

What I want to know is how you go on when you look aroundand don’t see anywhere you want to go without the only personyou can’t have.

No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived.

Had I known, I would not have left you, alone beneath those stars, on the night when I last saw you, not knowing it was the last.

My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.

I turn my back on him as he goes, and settle myself in the parlor, and touch Ma's piano.My fingers leave sighsin the dust.

it seems that man has learnednot to seenot to knowfor he's found the potof goldbut lost the rainbow...

Mourning is never really complete. The mappings of the old play remain in the cortex, like those mappings of the phantom limb.

Politics is an alternative to war and if you're in it, you live it as such. You win some & you lose at times.

Either way, the view stabbed its way into his chest, as if it were trying to finish him off before he even landed.

The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.

Sometimes I feel like my whole life before she died was a dream.

I wonder now if [the gods] take from us that which we love so we must seek them, if only to scavenge for meaning in this existence.

Kell stared at her, at a loss. Was her bravado a front, or did she truly have so little to lose? But she had a life, and a life was a thing that could always be lost.

There are no words precise enough to describe how wide and empty the world is when you lose someone that matters to you as much as Penny did to me.

I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore.

Sorrowful tears drench the earth, rise again in the form of hope

Wisdom often comes from those with the least to lose.

Regrettable was the gallantry of great men who risked themselves for others.

know one day, I will be gone.

Loving her was heaven that turned to hell when she died.

There is no loss in any loss...if you recognize it!

Three boys. Three deaths. One school. We've made the national news. Is out school cursed? Are we a reckless bunch of fools? The media asks questions no one can answer. Kids can't stop crying.

Time doesn’t heal anything. It’s like drinking. The best it can do is help you forget, if you’re lucky.