Quotes About Loss

I would say the main themes are love, loss and life. Although a lot of the songs represent hard times and situations I think my album is positive, the message is things will get better.

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.

There is nothing to lose in this life. The only loss is death.

People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.

It hurts deeper is when somebody you love becomes someone you loved.

One of the most devastating experiences in human life is disillusionment.

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn't we be able to take it back if we have the power to?

Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

I disappeared in her and she, wondering where I went, left.

I am blessed. I am blessed because I am going to go long before any of them do. I am not going to have to grieve for them, because they are going to have to grieve for me.

grief just sits there.

The grief doesn't leave. It becomes a part of you. Either you learn to live with it or you die. ... But grief just sits there.

Betrayed by friendship is not a bad memorial to leave.

when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

No one in the family has ever really gotten over Bob's death. We talk of him daily, recounting stories and imagining what his reactions would be to new books and recent events. He remains for my family the perfect model of how you can be gone but ever present in the lives of people who loved you, in the same way that your favorite books stay with you for your entire life, no matter how long it's been since you turned the last page.

I realized then that for all of us part of the process of mom's dying was mourning, not just her death, but also the death of our dreams of things to come. You don't really lose the person who has been.