Quotes About Loss

There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

I often think, she said, that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

Of all horrid things, leave-taking is the worst.

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone for ever.

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.

She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.

There could have been no two hearts So open, no tastes so similar, no feelings So in unison, no countenances So beloved. Now they were strangers; Nay, worse than strangers, for they Could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

For Marianne, however—in spite of his incivility in surviving her loss—he always retained that decided regard which interested him in every thing that befell her, and made her his secret standard of perfection in woman;—and many a rising beauty would be slighted by him in after-days as bearing no comparison with Mrs. Brandon.

when shall I cease to regret you!—when learn to feel a home elsewhere!

in dawdling through the greenhouse, where the loss of her favorite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte,-and in visiting her poultry-yard, where in the disappointed hopes of her dairymaid, by hens forsaking their nests, or being stolen by a fox, or in the rapid decease of a promising young brood, she found fresh sources of merriment.

there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and dissipation of unpleasant ideas which only reading could produce made her thankfully turn to a book.

To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost everything that could make it a blessing.

Every noisy evil is missed when it is taken away.

it was overwhelmed, buried, lost in those earlier feelings which I had been smarting under year after year. I could only think of you as one who had yielded, who had given me up....

I often think, said she, that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony. Half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever.

È troppo doloroso gli disse pensare che Charlotte Lucas sarà padrona di questa casa, che io sarò costretta a sgomberarle il campo e a sopportare di vederle prende il mio posto! Non abbandonarti, mia cara, a questi tristi pensieri. Cerchiamo di avere speranze migliori. Illudiamoci che possa essere io a sopravviverti.

and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

Por ella había sentido la más entrañable devoción y desde entonces no había conocido una mujer que se le igualara; pero, aparte de cierta curiosidad natural, no tenía ganas de volver a verla. Su poder sobre él se había perdido para siempre

He has been so unlucky as to lose your friendship," replied Elizabeth with emphasis, "and in a manner which he is likely to suffer from all his life.