Loss Quotes
Some say that Love, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies.
We myopically stare at the gaping hole left in our lives and see nothing but the hole, not realizing a hole is defined by everything around it that is not a hole.
Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.
Somehow, grief had seemed easier to bear when the skies were dark and a cold wind kept cats and prey inside their nests.
The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.
...and be emptied of gravity and surrounding by the rouge wave of an emotion she could not name.
He couldn’t count them all. Nobody taught him how to count past ten. Such losses were beyond his comprehension.
We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past.
For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess confidence in darkness? In the dark, you can't see.
We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.
There is something about loss and pain that opens the doors of wisdom in your heart, doors that would have remained locked for a whole lifetime.
The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain.
Allow yourself some happiness, so that I can be a part of it.
So, how can I try to be someone I didn't really even know?
The fearful have lost faith while the fearless allow faith to lead the way.
Sometimes when we are drowning in our own loss we lash out--anger is momentarily easier to cope with.
To better handle grief, become the passenger, not the driver.
Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing.
Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune meansan acid test of friendship.I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
None of us will truly have freedom until we know what it means to lose everything" - Laney
After your visits, I twisted my blinds shut every night. I locked out the stars and I never saw lightning again. Each night, I simply turned out the lights and went to bed.
I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it.
The catchers delight in the moment so frozen but soon discover that the nightingale expires, its clear flutelike song diminishes to silence, the trapped moment grows withered and without life.
Life luscious wet life bereft of death, loss of empty shell minus absent of nothing exploding star cell amoeba sweet algae oxygen, hydrogen flowering in the vacuum ofspace and magnetic motion.
Eli was right. The measure of success isn't what you gain. It's what you pay to get it.
To the world, it doesn’t matter that much. Until you remember that it means the world to the patient. One exact world, bright and full of sounds, per person. That is what is lost.
Somehow the thought she might be next wasn't nearly as terrifying as the realization he was gone.
You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.
Sometimes you have to let things go. Sometimes you have to stop caring for a minute.
Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears Can witness how I cling to thee?
Here, falling in love can be an event, a proclamation without acknowledging that everyone you love could die an awful death, that loving someone is an acceptance of impending loss.
You don't get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
A person can’t possibly live without the one person that gave them life.
I'm not going anywhere, " she told me that night. But until we are old ladies--a cypress age, a Sawtooth age--I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.
Maybe is wasn't love so much as a fear of losing everything I'd accomplished. I was afraid to let go.
When you are at a loss of words then go with your feelings. If you feel nothing you must rely on your thinking. If your thinking is not clear then lean on the spirit. With Spirit you cannot go wrong!
The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.
Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.