logo

Quotes About Loss

I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
~ Tom Waits
All my friends are dead, or else they're not feeling too good.
~ Tom Waits
Money Talk's . . . mine keeps saying Goodbye!
~ Unknown
My friend died of a broken heart . . . the cancer wasn't much help either.
~ Unknown
Once I had a dog that died of lead poisoning . . . I shot him in the head.
~ Unknown
Trying to forget someone you loved is like trying to remember someone you never knew.
~ Unknown
The sense of security which she thought she had found disappeared; the bottom fell out of her world and she felt herself falling into an abyss of unbelieving despair.
~ Unknown
You took nothing from me.
~ Unknown
We did not know that she had passed," Soth said. She held a palm up to the air. "Hopefully, her spirit has found serenity." The council did the same. "Spirit find Serenity," they said in unison.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
Weeping for the dead's a waste of breath - they're lucky, they can't die again.
~ Tony Harrison
Andersonville lay on American soil and saw the death of 13,000 Americans in American custody.
~ Tony Horwitz
Seven severely depressed prisoners were listed as having died of "nostalgia.
~ Tony Horwitz
Loss is loss, and nothing is gained by calling it by a nicer name.
~ Tony Judt
I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.
~ Tony Kushner
When your heart breaks, you should die. But there's still the rest of you. There's your breasts, and your genitals, and they're amazingly stupid, like babies or faithful dogs, they don't get it, they just want him. Want him.
~ Tony Kushner
I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then I see someone I want, and it's like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and I know I'm losing.
~ Tony Kushner
I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free.
~ Tony Kushner
I did my best Shirley Booth this morning, floppy slippers, housecoat, curlers, can of Little Friskies; "Come back, Little Sheba, come back..." To no avail. Le chat, elle ne reviendra jamais, jamais...
~ Tony Kushner
I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die
~ Tony Kushner
I never imagined losing my mind was going to be such hard work.
~ Tony Kushner
Human Remains Pouch. We don't call them body bags and they are not black, like the movies. This one was white with a long black zip.
~ Tony Parsons
There was lots that could be done. But there was also nothing that could be done. My father was dying.
~ Tony Parsons
I suspected it was just that I no longer cared so much. And that felt like the saddest thing in the world
~ Tony Parsons
The total isolation of death. The loneliness of the dying man. That is what I had noticed about my father's death. We loved him but, in the end, we left him and he died alone. Because we were tired. Because it was late. Because there was nothing we could do. We loved him and yet he was on his own.
~ Tony Parsons