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Quotes About Loss

So her missing person's poster features a girl with long hair and dreamy eyes that don't see the fracture coming.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Jennifer Silver lived quite long. She didn't die until 1994. A reason why Lily never felt motherless was that her mother was there with her, a door and a curtain away.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
She found a mirror and turned around in front of it with her arms held out in front of her. She was all there, all in one piece. Then what? What had she lost?
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Dad and Lily would never have this, they would never be old together and think inside each other's clockwork.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I see you in the grass, Running through the snow, But where you have gone, I cannot go.
~ Helen Pearson
I cannot bear to think what will become of me without you – you who are my one and all, who make up all my life',
~ Helen Rappaport
Maria Pavlovna)'s "Russian life was over." She and her kind had, she sadly admitted, "outlived our epoch and were doomed." "Everything disappears into the past, everything which is good everything which is bright and the only thing that's left is the terrible reality.
~ Helen Rappaport
And like Lot's wife, I am frozen. I have turned into a pillar of salt forever, and I shall forever go on looking, seeing my own land slip softly, slowly away from me.
~ Helen Rappaport
7 Si has tenido y has dado, el mundo afirma que has perdido lo que poseías. 8 La verdad mantiene que dar incrementa lo que posees.
~ Helen Schucman
4 Los pensamientos se extienden al compartirse, pues no se pueden perder.
~ Helen Schucman
They started bringing our babies out in those sheets and they laid them by my feet. They started making a line of them.
~ Helena Garrett
I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.
~ Henning Mankell
Quando si viene a sapere, o la si vede di persona, della morte di uno di quelli che facevano la guerra accanto a te e che vivevano esattamente alla tua stessa maniera, prima ancora di capire provi un colpo al cuore. È come se d'un tratto venissi a sapere che tu stesso sei stato annientato. Il dolore arriva solo dopo un po'.
~ Henri Barbusse
The memory of you saddened my joys, but consoled my sorrows.
~ Henri Barbusse
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Proximity to this death makes me nostalgic for the French language.
~ Henri Cole
My soft voice and demeanor were useless. In a pint jar, I carried a cremated friend, like flesh scraped from a cistern.
~ Henri Cole
I myself was a torrent, I was drowned, I was navigation. My great constitution hall, my ambassador's hall, my hall for gifts and exchanges into which I usher foreigners for a first examination—I had lost all my halls with my servants. I was alone, shaken around violently like a dirty thread in an energetic wash.
~ Henri Michaux
E in qualsiasi città ci fermiamo sono le case cui è troppo tardi per tornare i giardini in cui è troppo tardi per trascorrere una notte di luna e le donne che è troppo tardi per amare a tormentarci con la loro impalpabile presenza.
~ Henrik Nordbrandt
Att döda människor är att för alltid leva tillsammans med dem.
~ Henrik Tikkanen
Det värsta är inte att man förlorar sina pengar utan att man förlorar sina rika vänner.
~ Henrik Tikkanen
Our yesterdays are like a lonely and a ruined land wherein a breeze of recollection sighs--a fading land to which is no return.
~ Henry Abbey