Loss Quotes

We never truly "get over" a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it.

Jealousy is a mortal emotion. One that means I feel I have something to lose--something that, if gone, will tear away a part of me.

I believe I gather strength from the generations of women who came before me - that together we all hold the suffering of the world.

It is true that the grief journey is very lonely, but it is also up to you to decide just how lonely you will make it.

The truth is, we never know what life will bring us and we don't have as much control as we might think we have. But we CAN choose how we walk through life and how we spend our time.

If you fear to know the cost, the value will definitely be lost. Focus your attentions on the product, not the price.

Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it

...this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.

You have to do what feels right for you. Do not let anyone influence you otherwise. It is your mind, your heart, and your own internal wisdom that will lead you in the direction you need to go.

I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably.Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at theworld.

Once you have walked down the grief path, what you have gained on your journey may turn into invaluable advice for someone else.

I began to feel that nature itself was nurturing me, reminding me that life still offered beauty and calm, and that I was also made out of these elements.

Each loss brings growth with it, and learning to handle new experiences and taking charge of your needs is part of the transformative process.

Remember to view yourself and your humanness with a kind heart.

Learning to live again wholeheartedly includes letting love flow freely in and out of your heart.

They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.

Some of the choices you make might not always turn out to be the best ones, but at least you are learning as you go.

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior

What I would give right now, to feel nothing.

If you want to find money, focus on people. If you want to lose people, focus on money.

But these clouds won’t leaveWalk awayBarely breathingAs I’m lying on the floorTake my heartAs you’re leavingI don’t need it anymore

To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.

At one point, she said after a while, at one point we thought we might raise silkworms in one of the empty rooms. But then we never did. Oh, for the countless things one fails to do!

Look up, greet sparks of fire with salted eyes, For he’s a burning atmospheric sigh:One blaze of liquid flame on midnight sky, Soft orbital decay, and last goodbye.

Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one.

I loved and lost and survived.

Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.

Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

Be glad that once you did experience that magic. It's part of who you are now, and you're richer for it.

Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.

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

Be careful how close you get to someone... It just ends up hurting more than not having no one to love to begin with.

I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges.

in these shitty plastic days ...

It is wonderful, awesome and merrywise to see satan lose the battle to us in fear and panic and shame! Our victory is in Christ Jesus!

He who acquired all his wealth by *being at the right place at the right time* is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his *being at the wrong place at the wrong time.*

Ain’t nothing worse to a mama than losing her baby—

But you don't know what it was like. It was just the two of us that afternoon, and then . . . and then it was just me.

But she's still afraid that the more she misses him--his face, his skin, the way he looked at her--and the more hope she has that she'll see him again, the more she has to lose.

There are no words for so much loss, not right after it happens.

When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).

Anger is the only antidote strong enough to counter grief.

Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages

She knew nothing of the massacre that went on around her, but when she released the wail of a broken hearted mother, one man heard her. The one who took her son's life.

Free is he who is reputable for not being fearful of losing his reputation.

For a full two hours, he stood at that door, a cloud of uncertainty ruling his mind. Damian felt like his heart was about to burst. Could she love him? Was it really true?

As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.

Watch people when they win, and you will learn something. But watch them when they lose, and you will learn even more.

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us