Quotes About Loss

It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.

It's no fun when you lose.

The Bible says that as Christians we don't grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven - but we still grieve.

They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.

I'm an athlete - my legs were everything. I had no idea what my life would be like without them.

The minute the money is more, you lose your control, so then there's no point.

The sands in the hourglass have fallen without mercy throughout my life, but I try to remind myself of the blessed years that we shared—especially now, when I am drowning in riptides of sorrow and loss.

I am sorry, my darling, but there will never be another to replace you. The words I whispered to you were folly, and should have realized it then. You- and you alone- have always been the only thing I wanted, and now that you are gone have no desire to find another.

The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.

A pit rises in my stomach, hard and full. My breathing stops for a moment, then starts again, this time shallower. My mouth goes dry, and I feel my heart pounding. It is over, I know, and I am right.

the stories were becoming just that: stories. The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

Death is always sad, but it's also inevitable

They were neither the first casualties of the war nor the last. The war went on.

it dawned on me that love was the most powerful emotion of all, because it made you vulnerable to the possibility of losing everything that really mattered.

arte era suyo y los recuerdos eran míos, ¿qué

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when its over-- Adrienne Willis, Nights in Rodanthe

It's a terrible thing to outlive your child, a tragedy I wish upon no one.

Throughout my remaining days in New Bern, I wondered what she was doing at any given moment and where she was. I no longer felt complete, as if part of me had been hollowed out, leaving only an aching void. Before Natalie, I used to believe that with love, anything was possible. Now I understand that sometimes love isn't enough.

Ik begrijp dat liefde en verdriet hand in hand gaan, want de een kan niet bestaan zonder de ander, maar toch vraag ik mij wel eens af of het allemaal wel eerlijk is. Een man zou moeten sterven zoals hij heeft geleefd, vind ik. In zijn laatste ogenblikken moet hij omgeven en getroost worden door diegenen van wie hij altijd heeft gehouden.

For we both know my prognosis and what it will mean to us. I see your tears and I worry more about you than I do about me, because I fear the pain I know you will go through. There are no words to express my sorrow for this, and I am at a loss for words.

My father finally died a month before he turned 101, his license

Sei la mia migliore amica, il meglio di me, e non riesco a immaginare di rinunciare di nuovo a te. [...] Forse non capisci, ma ti ho dato la parte migliore di me, e dopo che te ne sei andata niente è più stato come prima. [...] So che hai paura, ho paura anch'io. Ma se lasciamo che tutto questo finisca, se fingiamo che non sia mai accaduto, non sono sicuro che ci verrà data un'alta occasione. [...] Siamo ancora giovani. Abbiamo ancora tempo per ricominciare come si deve.

Si de verdad existe un lugar llamado Cielo, nos volveremos a encontrar, ya que no hay Cielo sin ti.

The past was gone, after all, and the future was the only thing they had left.