Loss Quotes

You can’t lead people to where you’ve not been yourself. When you all get stranded, you need the knowledge of someone who knows the way!

It seems there's nothing so good or pure it cant be taken without a moment's notice. And then in the end, it all gets taken anyway.

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

You've left me with a kaleidoscope of broken smiles and shattered dreams.

But the only thing worse than remembering the feel of Rose in his arms, the softness of her black and white feathers, the sound of her voice when she sang quietly to herself, would be forgetting it.

You said this was only the beginning, I didn't realize that meant starting a new chapter without you as part of my story.

Keeping busy is the hardest part. When I find myself still, clear of thoughts, I can still feel you holding me.

What is deeply felt is never lost.

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

If we aren't willing to do whatever is required, " he said finally, "then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect.

Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn’t true.

There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds.

She said that that was the disadvantage of bringing creatures into the house: one grew used to them, and then, one had the upset of their loss.

There’s a lamentation in the flutter of your lash.

To lose someone after you’ve loved them was tougher than losing them when you’ve never even met them.

most of the timesit’s the hardest to saywhat I love moreyouor your memory.

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

That's my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn't like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better.

I sit there on the floor with the picture in front of me and think about how things get broken all the time by accident, and how sometimes you just don't get round to getting them fixed.

Our absence is what remains of us.

When I wear her clothes, I just feel safer, like she's whispering in my ear.

Enjoy your life, the time you have now, because time cannot be found only lost.

im in love with you and im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

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

I never thought that freedom would feel so much like grief.

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

...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.

The less I have, the less I can lose.

Ah, a romantic.” Danny leaned back, threading his fingers behind his head. “I used to be one, until my wife died. And then I was just pathetic.

I have a RAGING SEA inside of me, trying to break free from ALL of me.

A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bare to lose.

How does the moon feel as it sees the ocean lap at your shores? The eternal pain of knowing you are there but forever out of reach...

Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.

love canembellish its beginningsing its blossomingand engrave its eternitiesbut can never explain its loss.

They Served...reliving memoriesthat will not diegiving their allfor you and I -friends takenlives shaken...

I was always on guard and I was always prepared for him to be upset with me. I had lived feeling uneasy and tense for so long.

Being married definitely took work. When we fought, I felt like I wanted to float away and drown, whereas before I knew I could walk away without any strings attached.

I had no intention of forsaking my wedding vows. I had strong morals and never could have imagined going against them. I was never even tempted to stray.

I didn’t want to get burned. I didn't want to be the other woman, but I wanted him with all my might.

He wanted revenge and I knew he would not stop until he got it. I had to hope he would run out of fuel.

At times, it felt so odd being with a man in such an intimate way who was not my husband.

This very easy divorce had become very difficult. I thought I was in the express lane and it was all fast tracks from there. Think again.

I had to get used to it because my life was no longer safe and I was no longer protected like I once was.

I was physically attacked by a woman who didn’t even know me. Yes, my boyfriend was her former husband, but she tried to ruin me.

I could only defend myself so much. It was my word against his. There was no evidence, nor was there any proof. My word meant very little.

He would say things like, “But you are my wife!” when I didn’t do something that he wanted me to do. His expectations were not realistic.

Somehow, we both got carried away. I don’t know exactly how it happened, but before long, I knew nothing was ever going to be the same.

Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality

I don’t know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.

He's right. I can't deny it. I am the reason Day lost everything that matters to him.