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Quotes About Loss

What a laugh she had!--just like a thrush singing. And how pretty she had been in her cotton dresses and her large hats! She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.
~ Oscar Wilde
I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
~ Oscar Wilde
She sang of the Love that is perfected by death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb.
~ Oscar Wilde
Robert, men can love what is beneath them—things unworthy, stained, dishonoured.  We women worship when we love; and when we lose our worship, we lose everything. 
~ Oscar Wilde
Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
~ Oscar Wilde
I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
~ Oscar Wilde
There was evidently no time to be lost, so, hastily adopting the Fourth dimension of Space as a means of escape, he vanished through the wainscoting, and the house became quite quiet.
~ Oscar Wilde
We did not dare to breathe a prayer, Or give our anguish scope. Something was dead within each of us, And what was dead was Hope.
~ Oscar Wilde
A strange sense of loss came over him. He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that he had been in the past. Life had come between them.... His eyes darkened, and the crowded, flaring streets became blurred to his eyes. When the cab drew up at the theatre, it seemed to him that he had grown years older.
~ Oscar Wilde
One of the greatest tragedies of my life is the death of Lucien de Rubempré… It haunts me in my moments of pleasure. I remember it when I laugh.
~ Oscar Wilde
Sweet, there is nothing left to say But this, that love is never lost
~ Oscar Wilde
Las emociones de las personas que se ha dejado de amar siempre tienen algo de ridículo.
~ Oscar Wilde
Dünyan?n en güçlü insan? bile olsan, sevdiÄŸine kar?? kaybedersin.
~ Oscar Wilde
what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose'-how does the quotation run?-'his own soul'?
~ Oscar Wilde
I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything.
~ Oscar Wilde
I lost one illusion last night. I thought I had no heart. I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old. And it spoils one's career at critical moments.
~ Oscar Wilde
Bana bunu yok ettiÄŸini söylemiÅŸtin. Yanl?? söylemiÅŸim. O beni yok etti.
~ Oscar Wilde
For us, all that's left is kisses tattered as the little bees that die when they leave the hive.
~ Osip Mandelstam
MÄ›l v rukou kufÃ…â"¢í?ek a poprvé sv?šený ramena. Ale v mých o?ích vyrostl za tu noc o ohromný kus.
~ Ota Pavel
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
~ Ovid
And now, as she died for the second time, she never complained that her husband had failed her - what could she complain of, except that he'd loved her?
~ Ovid
All that remained of Daphne was her shining loveliness
~ Ovid
una duos nox perdet amantes. one night loses two lovers.
~ Ovid
And last her voice remained. Vanished in forest
~ Ovid