Loss Quotes
Haruki Murakami
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
2150Jourdane Erasquin
I miss you every minute of every day. If I could miss you more than that, I would.
2980 Raymond Carver
They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving.
1991 Haruki Murakami
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.
1294 Stephen King
What you love, you must love all the harder because someday it will be gone.
4589 A.J. Darkholme
A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.
3158 Emily Brontë
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
3754 Edgar Allan Poe
From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
3034 José N. Harris
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
1305 J.R. Ward
You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life.
After they were gone?
That was all you thought about.
Day and night.
3099 Becca Fitzpatrick
I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I couldn't escape you and I didn't want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you.
1885 Arthur Conan Doyle
A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.
2333 Margaret George
So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.
2314 Roman Payne
It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leave this life slowly!
3905 C. Elizabeth
Though sorrow may impede my heart,
It is of great love to have known you.
2890 Jourdane Erasquin
If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn't have found a reason to let you go.
4754 Richard Ford
And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss
and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.
3881 Czesław Miłosz
You see how I try
To reach with words
What matters most
And how I fail.
3248 Rebecca McNutt
People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines.
2900 Anthony Liccione
Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.
1023 Jourdane Erasquin
There are times that the emotions we keep in our hearts, no matter how abundant, are better left unexpressed.
1370 Amit Kalantri
I work so hard for profits because my dreams are expensive.
2550 Slash Coleman
Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?
1328 Slash Coleman
Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.
3795 Slash Coleman
I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.
2840 William Shakespeare
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
2256 Mark Slouka
Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.
1701 C.S. Lewis
And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.
4024 Mookhatchka Khalid
Writing poetry was not my thing, for you my love every bit of my heart had to sing.
3006 Susan Catalano
The kiss grew into so much more than anything that had come before, unfettered by a time that strived to contain passion, born from perceived loss and glorious gain.
1266 Julianna Baggott
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.
3293 Saleem Sharma
As we grow up, nothing changes more than the definition of loss.
1322 Rudyard Kipling
We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week...
The bottom is out of the Universe.
3834 Jodi Picoult
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
4432 Jodi Picoult
If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?
2447 Andrew Solomon
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
4503 Maggie Stiefvater
I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.
3751 Sarah Ockler
Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much gravity on my heart.
2515 Haruki Murakami
Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.
3652 Carol Rifka Brunt
I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.
2068 Katharine Weber
Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.
4161 Suzanne Collins
That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. 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.
1604 Haruki Murakami
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
2743 Susan Gordon Lydon
Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?
2367 Loretta Ellsworth
I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.
4550 Charlie Kaufman
There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.
2888 Patrick Swayze
When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.
4511 Toba Beta
Price of peace could only be valued by
people who had suffered loss in the war.
4314 Sunny-drunk
It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.
1275 Karen Quan
Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves.
1959 K.L. Toth
One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.
2238 Kevin Brooks
It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.
4903 Terry Pratchett
And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.
3276 Audrey Niffenegger
one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
2808 Audrey Niffenegger
I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.
3443 Audrey Niffenegger
I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room
1547 Jess C. Scott
Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.
2099 Charles Bukowski
she slammed the door and
was gone.
I looked at the closed door
and at the doorknob
and strangely
I didn't feel
alone.
4612 Sanhita Baruah
Let it rain on some days,
Let yourself shiver on some cold nights,
So when it's Spring you'll know why it was all worth going through.
1111 Katherine Owen
Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.
4662 Sara Sheridan
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.
2939 Rebecca McNutt
photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself…
3294 Jodi Picoult
If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
1168 Arthur Golden
At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.
3505 Lemony Snicket
It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.
1949 Gayle Forman
Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.
4352 China Miéville
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 I'm like this.
I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.
I can't say goodbye.
2942 Mitch Albom
But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.
2279 Richard Adams
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
2259 Meghan O'Rourke
Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.
3544 Nessa Rapoport
Undo it, take it back, make every day the previous one until I am returned to the day before the one that made you gone. Or set me on an airplane traveling west, crossing the date line again and again, losing this day, then that, until the day of loss still lies ahead, and you are here instead of sorrow.
4371 Gwenn Wright
How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?
1854 Francine Prose
I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night.
1527 C.S. Lewis
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
4607 Robert Goolrick
I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.
4704 Lang Leav
Saving You
The darkness takes him over,
the sickness pulls him in;
his eyes - a blown out candle,
I wish to go with him.
Sometimes I see a flicker -
a light that shone from them;
I hold him to me tightly,
before he's gone again.
3391 George W. Bush
It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.
1593 Roland Barthes
To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...?
4488 John Corey Whaley
Not only had my brother disappeared, but-and bear with me here-a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.
3581 Pat Cunningham Devoto
No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it was like the soldiers he had read about. They would have an arm or a leg blown off, and for days, even weeks after it happened, they could still feel the arm itching, the leg itching, the mother calling.
2559 John Green
You can't just make me different and then leave
4315 Mary Karr
Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.
3657 Kellie Elmore
...what happens when you return
and find nothing
but a hollowed shell,
shingles and floor,
walls and echoes
and the light that lead you here
has now burned out
and the ones who built it
have traveled afar
and you cant go to them,
no matter what shoes you wear.
1267 Audrey Niffenegger
...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.
1205 Gail Caldwell
The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.
2701 Maya Van Wagenen
No popularity exists when tragedy strikes. All that's left are human hearts and love and ache. We all love each other, deep down, and when we see another soul in pain we can't help but hurt too.
2618 Gail Caldwell
Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
2172 Meghan O'Rourke
What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.
1113 Edwin Arlington Robinson
And thus we all are nighing
The truth we fear to know:
Death will end our crying
For friends that come and go.
1175 Tammara Webber
Tonight I want to stand on the side of a cliff and look down, dare the wind to gust and knock me off. Everyone thinks that falling to your death is the worst thing that can happen. But that’s a lie. The worst thing is to be alive for no reason.
1863 Louise Fitzhugh
WHEN SOMEBODY GOES AWAY THERE'S THINGS YOU WANT TO TELL THEM. WHEN SOMEBODY DIES MAYBE THAT'S THE WORST THING. YOU WANT TO TELL THEM THINGS THAT HAPPEN AFTER.
4814 Alice Sebold
He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
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