Quotes About Loss

let go of what's gone, and be grateful for what still remains.

You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest

People lament for their losses because it´s easier mourn for the past than avoid them in present.

The past is a losing battle that we can´t demand rematches.

I would have understood if they had killed him.

And Elwyn, if you disturb me before dawn, I promise, I will turn you into a train of thought, and lose you.

I don't need him to comfort me or tell me it's okay. I can make it okay, myself. Maybe that was what happened when you faced the very worst thing in the world. She'd lost her family and her old life and maybe even her childhood, but she'd found herself. And that would have to do.

CASSIE: Please stay, bound or not, you are my sister. You are the only family I have left. DIANA: No matter where I go, that is never gonna change. But I have got to get our of here. I've lost everything. I don't even know who I am any more.

Suddenly Elena wished that Stefan wasn't the type of boyfriend to give her space.  She wished that he was here with her.  Come to think of it, if they were all grieving for the same person, why shouldn't he be with her?  Why had he run away instead of staying to support her?

When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.

It would be like losing me, like losing my own soul, Rob said, but it was't really like him saying it to her, it was as if he were simply realizing these things himself. And now it's like finding my soul again. The other half of me.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

If life be wretched, it is hard to bear it; if it be happy, it is horrible to lose it ; both come to the same thing.

There are certain people who so ardently and so passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.

We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist anymore.

for it traded what should never be traded. It delivered me into the unknown and erased my father's name. I could not know that this was just the first of many erasures. I

You miss Azemmur, she said. Yes, I said. And I have grown so used to the pain of missing it that sometimes I feel as though I have learnt to walk after an imputation. But now, Oyomasot, it is as if I can sense that severed limb again.