Quotes About Loss

What alteration was ever fot the better? Change meant loss.

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.

Crimes like this baffle the mind. They break your heart. They'll tear you up inside if you let them.

I did not realize what a gift I had been given until it was too late, forever too late. Must life always be that way?

Surely, grief chokes courage, blinds knowledge, and clouds the senses. There is no greater enemy than grief.

Sometimes it takes a loss before we can understand what it means to be found.

It's regret that kills, the if onlys that leave the mortal wounds.

It's been a long time, you see. There's been no one for five years. Not since Gavin. I've spent five years murdering what I felt for him, starving my need for him, purging my memory. But somehow it still feels...too soon. They say time heals, but--' 'They lied,' he said simply.

He just carried on being dead

For Jean Dennis and in memory of John Dennis Prologue

we mothers lose a lot of sleep, I realized.

My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.

Now they were merely trying to fill themselves up but not with the heart, not the soul. They'd lost both those along the way...

A bird killed in the name of human power is in truth a loss of power from the world, not an addition to it.

Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.

Mi padre se me ha aparecido esta noche. Estaba envuelto en un manto de fuego. Y me preguntaba por qué lo había matado por segunda vez al quemar sus cartas.

Sometimes we are given exactly what we need. The precise people that you need the most come stumbling into your life. Sometimes you don't notice, and this is very sad. Sometimes you lose them again. This is sad too, but not as sad. Because what you have once had together you have forever.

I still saw everything through the filter I had created in order to survive. I could not see the happiness that preceded the abyss. I had forced myself not to acknowledge my life's most splendid moment, in order to be able to live out the rest of my life without it. I think that was what had happened. It has changed since, but back then it was impossible for me to embrace the happiness I had lost.

Det er bare det vi har mistet, som fremstår som evig uforanderlig.

We wanted to sing about the passions of mature women: love and concern for our children, love between trusted and treasured friends, the precariousness of romantic love, the difference between the love you give to the living and the love you give to the dead, the bitterness of a lost love remembered, and the long, steady love you keep for good.

I always thought it was a shame . . . that we didn't keep those things safe somehow.

But [Patrick's] character is partly based on a boy named Mark who lived across the street from me when I was growing up ... I liked hanging out with him and was sad when he moved away after only a year in the neighborhood. I guess writing about Patrick is a way for me to spend more time with Mark.

I don't feel like playing anymore—all because of that stupid announcement. "Express your gratitude," they'd said. What they take: our rice, our language, our names. What they give: little rubber balls. I can't feel grateful about such a bad deal.

Nya could see the questions in her mother's face every morning: Would they be lucky again? Or was it now their turn to lose someone?