Quotes About Loss

She saw how death impacted people, saw the glazed look in their eyes, the way they shook their heads, the way their sentences broke in half as if they couldn't decide is silence or words would release them from sorrow.

Loreda pulled Elsa into her arms and held her while she cried for all of it—the way they lived, the dreams they'd lost, the future they'd so blindly believed in. For the children who would grow up not knowing Jean. Her humor, her gentleness, her steel, her hopes for them.

Once, a lifetime ago, she had worried about girls, only a few years older than her, who had gone missing. The stories had given her nightmares at thirteen. Now she knew there were a hundred ways to be lost and even more ways to be found.

What was love when put up against war?

I know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain

They are not lost. Nor are they in a better place. They are gone. As I approach the end of my years, I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us. I

Vianne knew about the kind of talon grief that wouldn't let go; she had fallen into the fathomless gray that warped a mind and made a mother keep holding on long after hope was gone.

What will we be without him?" Meredith whispered, clinging to her. "Less," was all Nina could think of to say.

Had she learned nothing in life? People left. She knew that. They especially left her.

Love had turned into loss and she'd pushed it away, but somehow, impossibly, a bit of that love had remained. A girl's love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable.

Unlike me, Bobby will never know the nagging ache of an absent father; he will have the loss of his mother inside him, like a thin shadow on a bright day, standing close, but he won't have that dragging sense that he was unloved, somehow, unworthy

Kristin Hannah

Here was a flash Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a glimpse of the future that was slowly being lost. The family they could have become. She stared up at Jack. "God, what a life we could have had." He leaned closer, still holding Ant, and kissed her on the lips, stayed there long enough that she tasted his tears. She lifted a hand, pressed her palm to his cheek so he could feel her touch one last time. "Take them home for me," she whispered against his lips.

Lord knows I understand how grief and love can break you.

Amintirile sunt tot ceea ce ne ramane la final.

Beyond that, she had never had great impulse control. Maybe because she'd never had anything to lose. Now, she knew what it meant to be afraid, to want something - or someone - so much it made your heart ache.

Daniel laughed. How long would she remember exactly that sound? Not long enough. She knew that now. Memories—even the best of them—faded.

Kristin Hannah

That was the thing about her dad: he might be moody and sharp-tempered, even a little scary sometimes, but that was just because he felt things like love and loss and disappointment so keenly. Love most of all.

But, as with Matthew, loss had rearranged her from the inside out.

Leni thought maybe that he would haunt her. Not just him, but the idea of him, the sad and scary truth that you could love and hate the same person at the same time, that you could feel a deep and abiding loss and shame for your own weakness and still be glad that this awful thing had been done.

A broken heart hurts as badly in wartime as in peace. Say good-bye to your young man well.

My side of the bed. It's funny, but some things don't change after the death of a spouse, and that's one of them. The left side of the bed is mine even though I am alone in it.

Loreda's lost memories. Sometimes