Quotes About Loss

you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again. He hesitated, searching for the right words. You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.

Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.

It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.

When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.

Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form, no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing..

The memories of the day played in his mind, but this time, his thoughts were of his daughter and the way she'd clung to Katie, her little face buried in Katie's neck. The last time he'd seen that, he reflected, was when Carly had been alive.

If there is a heaven we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.

It isn't. The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. These two elements always go together.

And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.

Grief is always the price we pay for love

But now, alone in my house, I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him, and I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could have ever loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?

love was the most powerful emotion of all, because it made you vulnerable to the possibility of losing everything that really mattered.

My life is infinitely better for having you in it. And that's what makes all of this so hard; it's why I can't seem to find the words I need. It scares me to know that all of this will be ending soon

Not wanting to lose someone has its roots in fear.

You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have.

Like Clara's, Dawson's ghost was everywhere.

any time I spent with Ruth should be regarded as precious. War, after all, was everywhere.

I sit by the bed with an aching back, and start to cry as I pick up the notebook. I am tired now, so I sit, alone and apart from my wife. And when the nurses come in they see two people they must comfort. A woman shaking in fear and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.

And I'd be struck a new by the finality of Ruth's absence.

She wished her younger brother, Drake, were here, and she felt the usual ache when she thought of him.

For when it comes, she is gone, and sometimes I wonder whether she and I will ever love again.

Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul. "I'm dying, Landon.