Quotes About Loss

Ripeto la parola "dolore" come fa Yochai con le parole che non capisce. Hai detto che in questo modo cerca di tenere lontano le cose che non conosce. Dolore dolore dolore.

More than anything, more than anything she had with him, she missed the language they had invented, the likes of which she had never had nor would again. The thoughts and ideas he had birthed in her, his golden touch, and the words that erupted from her and became sparks of light to him.

Ben remembered that in Italy, he and Rachel had slipped down between rows of apple trees on the plain of the Po, deep into the cool and dark of orchards, and there they had kissed with the sadness of newlyweds who know that their kisses are too poignantly tender and that their good fortune is subject, like all things, to the crush of time, which remorselessly obliterates what is most desired and pervades all that is beautiful.

Losing is like knowing that, in the movie scene where a thousand die but the hero lives, you're one of the obliterated.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

His dad, dying in the hospital, had said something about pain. It stuck to you like flour. You thought you could wash it all away, out of your clothes, out of your hair. But some stray grain always persisted, slyly avoiding your well-meant attentions and the drugs the doctors had. Life was like that. The only thing to do, he said, was your best.

You were a laugh with some potential. Now you're but a pricey pain.

All the annoying stuff people spout about your loved ones being in a better place, or not being in pain is just words they say to make themselves feel better.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

It's seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind, is lost all at once.

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

The monsters in My head always knew That I would Lose you in The end

You still can't see it and it's right in front of your eyes. It's the reason we're gathered here. The only reason we're here is because of the ones we loved. That the line that held us.

If they reject that truth, however, they cannot expect to understand more, and in fact, they will lose the truth that they have. (See Romans 1:21-28.) If they do not actively believe and love truth, they are subject to deception. (See II Thessalonians 2:10-12.)

Each person's grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share a need for their grief to be witnessed. That doesn't mean needing someone to try to lessen it or reframe it for them. The need is for someone to be fully present to the magnitude of their loss without trying to point out the silver lining.

You don't have to experience grief, but you can only avoid it by avoiding love. Love and grief are inextricably intertwined.

When someone dies, the relationship doesn't die with them.

Your loss is not a test, a lesson, something to handle, a gift, or a blessing. Loss is simply what happens to you in life. Meaning is what you make happen.

Healing doesn't mean the loss didn't happen. It means that it no longer controls us.

Death ends a life, but not our relationship, our love, or our hope.

Life gives us pain. Our job is to experience it when it gets handed to us. Avoidance of loss has a cost.

A loved one's death is permanent, and that is so heartbreaking. But I believe your loss of hope can be temporary. Until you can find it, I'll hold it for you. I have hope for you. I don't want to invalidate your feelings as they are, but I also don't want to give death any more power than it already has. Death ends a life, but not our relationship, our love, or our hope.

wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. Lose your child and you're… nothing. —Tennessee Williams