Quotes About Loss

The way that I miss you is like heavy rain drenching every inch of my body, and when I am dry again and forget you I miss missing you, until tears fill my eyes and I blink too fast to remember you until your face flashes before my eyes.

If keeping your word costs you the one thing you love the most, then what was it even worth keeping in the first place?

My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.

Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.

Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.

If there was one thing responsible for ruining lives, it was love.

Nothing is solved. We go on and the scar tissue gets a little more pliable. It will never not be sad. It will never not hurt. It will go on being at the heart of my mother, my father, my brother, my sister and me. We are five of the millions and millions of people who walk this world carrying our grief in a knotted scarf and hoping it will not come undone.

Grief is a pilgrimage, a long song, a poem that is never quite finished.

Only missed being a jumper, or dying in the collapse, by five minutes. That ash on me, later I thought about it. That was people. Probably people I knew.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living. —Albus Dumbledore

They wanted me to stay because they wanted me around: I was their direct link to Sam; I was his memento. And they were probably afraid that I might shoot myself, left alone with all Sam's things.

Six years and my parents are still dead, and I still feel like I'm rotting away in purgatory, waiting for a killer to determine my fate.

Laurie Faria Stolarz

They say it is what you never imagine can be lost that is hardest to live without.

This was loss that ruined your life leading straight to gain that saved it. It wasn't silver lining; it was a whole silver sky.

Some sadness has no remedy. Some sadness you can't make better.

This had always pissed him off about Romeo and Juliet, its ending platitude that at least the feud was laid to rest and the fighting families had come together as if this somehow made it worth losing their teenagers. As if Romeo and Juliet would have been willing to die just so their parents would get along.

Oft in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shown Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken. (from When the Splendor Falls by Laurie McBain)

The three cycles of loss center on our sense of control, safety, and identity.

De pronto, mientras miraba por la ventanilla, se sintió engañada y enojada. Todo ese tiempo y ese amor invertidos en la vida de otra persona, y ahora él se había ido, y con él gran parte de su futuro

Y cuando nos separamos, es otoño en mi corazón.

Entonces, dijiste algo que nunca olvidé. Dijiste que estar con él hacía la vida más significativa, y que cuando se iba, llegaba el otoño a tu corazón.

The world's not perfect, tomboy. Sometimes we have fires and fistfights and lose friends.

Because when we lose someone we've allowed to be our whole life, we find that we have very little left to sustain us. Not only have we distanced ourselves from God, but we've lost something of ourselves in the process.