Quotes About Loss

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.

When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother.

Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I'm sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead.

Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.

Hold on ... Say your son or daughter has just gotten killed in a car accident and you're plastered out of your mind at 3 a.m. Are you going to be able to handle that?

A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.

Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?

The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.

Whatever time mother goes to heaven, it is always too soon. Fortunately, she is forever.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver.

We lost because we didn't win.

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

Most one-run games are lost, not won.

Take heart. You're not alone. Every broken heart breathes again. That's life. It goes on. In loss, and in gain.

For he or she that harbours no fear has never truly loved anything. You can only measure true love by the thought and fear of its loss.

When you lose what you love remember to stay strong. Look out the window and remember life goes on.

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.