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Quotes About Loss

One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them. I always thought that was just the way life was. My life and everybody else's.
~ Paulo Coelho
Cred ca am gresit, ca am pierdut, intr-un anumit moment, legatura cu femeia pe care o iubeam. Iar acum nu am nevoie decat de-o harta, vreau sa ma duc la ea
~ 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
The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.... Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything … They become the Soul of the World.
~ Paulo Coelho
It was going to be impossible to escape her own trap, she would lose this man without ever really having him.
~ Paulo Coelho
I'm losing the Love i have without having yet won the Love i hope to win.
~ Paulo Coelho
In theory, every loss is for our own good; in practice, though, that is when we question the existence of God and ask ourselves: What did I do to deserve this?
~ Paulo Coelho
Cuando no tuve nada que perder, lo perdí todo. Cuando dejé de ser quién era, me encontré a mi mismo. Cuando conocí la humillación y aún así seguí caminando, entendí que era libre para escoger mi destino.
~ Paulo Coelho
When we are on high (Mountain), we can see everything else as small. Our glory and our sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered or lost remains there below. From the heights of the mountain, you see how large the world is , and how wide its horizons.
~ Paulo Coelho
And out of his heaviness there stood out strangely but one clear thought and it was a pain to him, and it was this, that he wished he had not taken the two pearls from O-lan that day when she was washing his clothes at the pool, and he would never bear to see Lotus put them in her ears again.
~ Pearl S. Buck
All that had been was now no more.
~ Pearl S. Buck
We were a proud people. We lost our country. Our only hope for return was to keep ourselves a people. The only hope to keep ourselves a people was to keep our common faith in one God, a God of our own. That God has been our country and our nation. In sorrow and wailing and woe for all that we have lost has been our union. And our rabbis have so taught us, generation after generation.
~ Pearl S. Buck
but in her everything lasted. She had all she ever had. Everything she had, the home she and Mark had made, his death, Blake's sharp and passionate love to make her know herself a woman, the children—she had all of it forever, to be the rich experience from which she drew her life, her life which was so much more than her mortal
~ Pearl S. Buck
And it is quite true that she, with the lambs, do provide me with a comfort I cannot fathom. It is a small comfort, but deep, a mother tie to this earth. I own something more, something alive. I shall have to attach myself by all these small cords lest I be rootless, now that the tap root is gone.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Cómo se mira algo que nunca más se va a ver? ¿Cómo se puede olvidar aquello que nunca se ha tenido?
~ Unknown
Siempre fue así, suspiró rendida, pan para hoy y hambre para mañana, tan pronto creía tener algo y la vida se lo quitaba de un arañazo.
~ Unknown
Infertility had rocked me to my core.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.
~ William P. Young
I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.
~ Ben Howard
Debate, but do not argue.Challenge, but do not force your opinions.To win an argument, but lose a friendship, is a loss.To lose an argument, but retain a friendship, is gain.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
We make art out of our loss.
~ Linda Hogan
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.
~ Elizabeth Bishop