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Quotes About Loss

And the day your childhood dies is probably the first day you really know what guilt is.
~ Paul Zindel
I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater.
~ Paula Vogel
They were all too young to die and always would be.
~ Paulette Jiles
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
~ Paulo Coelho
In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
~ Paulo Coelho
People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in the field, you'll keep it forever. That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why i will never lose you.
~ Paulo Coelho
We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
~ Paulo Coelho
If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.
~ Paulo Coelho
Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.
~ Paulo Coelho
No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.
~ Paulo Coelho
I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.
~ Paulo Coelho
Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love.It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.
~ Paulo Coelho
We are afraid of losing what we have.
~ Paulo Coelho
People destroy what they love.
~ Paulo Coelho
That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you.... ......... I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the window, and all the things we'll always have because we cannot possess them
~ Paulo Coelho
We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of moments that could have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.
~ Paulo Coelho
How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly?
~ Paulo Coelho
When faced by any loss, there's no point in trying to recover what has been, it's best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.
~ Paulo Coelho
It hurt when I lost each the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
~ Paulo Coelho
We could go back to the time when we first met: a man in emotional tatters over someone who had left him, and a woman madly in love with her neighbor. I could repeat what I said to you once: 'I'm going to fight to the bitter end.' Well, I fought and I lost, and now I'll just have to lick my wounds and leave.
~ Paulo Coelho
We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.
~ Paulo Coelho
In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.
~ Paulo Coelho
At that moment, Maria learned that certain things are lost forever.
~ Paulo Coelho
When faced with a loss, it is no use trying to recover what has gone. On the other hand, a great space has been opened up in your life - there it lies, empty, waiting to be filled with something new. At the moment of one's loss, contradictory as this might seem, one is being given a large slice of freedom.
~ Paulo Coelho