Quotes About Loss

They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn

I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.

You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.

Man has never been the same since God died.

There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.

Hence these tears.

Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.

Where were you when my heart was breaking? Will you scream out my name when I am dead and gone?

For only the body would die, whereas the loss of a soul is a great loss which is apparently without end;

I remember my sister's last hoorah. She joined all the black people I'm tired of losing, All the dead from parts of Florida, Ferguson, Brooklyn, Charleston, Cleveland, Chicago, Baltimore, wherever the names alive are Like the names in graves. I am someone With a good memory & better imagination.

Maybe we all need a glimpse of life without someone we love once in a while, just to teach us not to take them for granted.

His tears reached deep inside and tore great chunks from what was left of his heart.

The waves, the girl in the rain, and that awful, blood-begotten stom. Blood and love and loss.

So, Anna, did you know That when you kill yourself Those you say you love, They die too?

I could always accept not being the prettiest or the smartest Because I had the best of friends. A and A they called us. But, Anna, somehow, I failed you. And now I've lost the best part of Me.

Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.