Quotes About Loss

Time takes all and gives all.

Things die, too, you know. And so, if they too have to die, well there it is, it is so much better to let them go

But do you know, you can love a city like a woman? My old father had lived in Delhi all his life. He died of a broken heart.

He would not want to sound like a haunted man; he would not want to sound as though he was calling from a welfare hotel, years too late, to say Yes, that was a baby we had together, it would have been a baby. For he could not help now but recall the doctor explaining about that child, a boy, who had appeared so mysteriously perfect in the ultrasound. Transparent, he had looked, and gelatinous, all soft head and quick heart; but he would have, in being born, broken every bone in his body.

La plupart des hommes de pouvoir tirent leur aura de la position qu'ils occupent. À partir du moment où ils la perdent, c'est comme si la prise avait été arrachée. Ils se dégonflent comme ces poupées qui se trouvent à l'entrée des parcs d'attractions. On les croise dans la rue et on ne réussit pas à comprendre comment un type de ce genre a pu susciter autant de passions.

Se o teu amigo morreu, não o enterres. Mantém-te um pouco afastado e aguarda. Os abutres hão-de chegar e tu farás imensos amigos novos.»

He rests in the graveyard of Ivry a suburb that always looks like the day the carnival comes down. And perhaps only I still know that he was alive".

I'm in the kitchen. You are three days dead. A smiling moon rises on fertile ground, White stars and vegetables. The sky is blue. Clock hands sweep by it all, they twirl around, Pushing me, oarless, from the shore of you.

The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

He'd sensed the strength she'd called on to haul her sexuality out from under the weight of infertility. In his experience childlessness in women either warped into a dedication to self-hating sexual expertise or formed a subsonic noise of sadness and loss.

The only way to be sure of never losing the ones you love. The Dahmer Method. Extreme, but effective.

But what's heartbreak? A feeling. I've had it with feelings, even if they haven't had it with me.

Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

You never fully appreciate what you had until you don't have it anymore

At the Battle of the Somme in France, more than sixty thousand British soldiers died on the battle's first day alone.476

America has let thieves into her home and that nagging in your gut is a final warning that our country is about to be stolen. Our Founding Fathers understood that our rights and liberties are gifts from God. They also understood that WE are an intuitive people. If all that is true, then it only makes sense that He would alert us to our impending loss. And now He is---shame on us for ignoring Him for so long.

Of the approximately 2,900 Jewish Nasielskers who remained in Poland, fewer than ten survived the war.

What was it Freud once said? All depression is caused by the loss of someone's love.

grief is the hardest cross to bear.

When my mother died I learned that grief can be a very private thing.

He found himself falsely thinking that one could scarcely begrudge these people the mastery of the world; if they wanted it enough to pay the same price they exacted of others; if they were willing to bring the common suffering and irreparable loss upon themselves as everyone else.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.