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Quotes About Loss

Everything that matters hurts, until it doesn't matter anymore.
~ Dianna Hardy, Broken Lights
The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.
~ Rob Liano
Life is an adventure in growing up, and when you have lost a lot of people you realize each day is a gift.
~ Sravani Saha Nakhro
Eventually everything appears to disappear from the life. That's it.
~ Aditya Ajmera
When someone close to you dies, the memories and recollections of them are painful.
~ Colleen Hoover, Slammed
No money can buy back the moment that is gone
~ Debasish Mridha
Love is to love, be loved, and lost.Never to be enclosed in mortal hands.
~ Vinod Varghese Antony
As life goes on, images fade.
~ Farid F. Ibrahim
All the stress and misery of life comes from fear of loss. Remember that you can never lose anything without gaining something. To avoid misery, concentrate on what you will gain.
~ Debasish Mridha
Death is the final dance of dreams, desires, loves and hopes.
~ Debasish Mridha
Losing something is difficult while gaining something is easier. So try to gain beauty and make your life prettier.
~ Debasish Mridha
My darling I still love you, no matter that you're gone.You'll always be with me, forever and ever more.
~ Anthony T Hincks
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
~ W.S. Merwin
The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.
~ Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.
~ Paul Celan
she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away
~ Saul Williams, She
The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.
~ Ted Kooser, Braided Creek
Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.
~ Richard Siken, Crush
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
~ John Cage
Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.
~ Linda Ronstadt
America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
~ Azar Nafisi
All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking
~ Robert Hass