Quotes About Loss

Stratton was at a loss. Ashbourne seemed disappointed, and continued. "The next step was to artificially induce the growth of an embryo from an ovum, by application of a name.

In public Neil was able to mask his grief as adults are expected to, but in the privacy of his apartment, the floodgates of emotion burst open.

Restoring the air supply cannot re-create what has evanesced.

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity

Raising a child, she said, "puts you in touch, deeply, inescapably, daily, with some pretty heady issues: What is love and how do we get ours? Why does the world contain evil and pain and loss? How can we discover dignity and tolerance? Who is in power and why? What's the best way to resolve conflict?

In this way Hassan lived the happiest of lives until he was overtaken by death, breaker of ties and destroyer of delights.

Of those who'd been devout before their loss, some struggled with the task of remaining so, while others gave up their devotion without a second glance. Of those who'd never been devout, some felt their position had been validated, while others were faced with the near impossible task of becoming devout now.

Until he was taken over by death. Breaker of ties and destroyer of delights.

I didn't sob, I didn't wail, I didn't whimper... because those are all things that dead people cannot do.

Then, having had a good cry about my being gone, he'd collect himself and get on with his life, proceeding south into the village, with head and tail erect.

When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd":

Try that yourself sometime: Take something (or someone) you love, and -in your imagination- say goodbye forever right now. Grieve for a moment. Then feel the explosion of happiness that comes when you remind yourself you don't have to say goobye. At least, not yet.

For all those who experienced it, the Spanish Civil War was devastating.

When you're a mom, you need sparkle to compensate for the light inside of you that has died.

I can't speak for others, but I miss my father.

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Nancy was a very special person, too beautiful for this world. I feel so privileged to have loved her and been loved by her.

For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.

The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and species extinctions, as well as in the loss of some of the things that make this planet a blue-green jewel, including its specialized habitats from the melting Arctic to bleaching coral reefs.

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

I wouldn't want anyone to go through what my mam did - she was ill for two and a half years with breast cancer that moved to her spine, and died in 1998, when she was 51.