Quotes About Loss

Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

A lot of times, you'll be flipping through country radio and there's just no substance. Like I've said before, it's all about props: Solo cups or whatever. It's not about a dude's work day or someone that lost a good friend or relative. There's nothing to hold onto when you're going through something.

I used to collect comic books. I had a substantial collection. I collect records also, but those have gone the way of the world.

We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.

My crazy fear is I'm always afraid my keys are going to fall down a subway grate when I walk over it. I'm afraid they're going to jump out of my pocket and fall down. Isn't that stupid?

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

I'm going in2 this not knowing what I'll find but I've decided 2 follow my heart and abandon my mind and if there be pain I know that at least I gave my all and it is better 2 have loved and lost than 2 not love at all In the morning I may wake 2 smile or maybe 2 cry but first 2 those of my past I must say goodbye

Life is short but heartache is shorter

When people you love pass on, and they know without a shadow of a doubt that you loved them, there's not a trace of regret. You're both set free.

The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.

To watch powerlessly while a loved one slowly gets weaker is awful. To grieve and at the same time to make the most of each day. Of the time one still has. One prepares oneself consciously and unconsciously for the loss one knows will come. In despair one can be anything but sympathetic and tolerant.

Grief often feels lonely. Part of the work of grieving has to be done by oneself. Nobody can be of any help with the innermost sorrow. One must bear it on one's own.

The darkest day of my life was the day I heard of Lincoln's assassination. I did not know what it meant. Here was the rebellion put down in the field, and starting up in the gutters...

Vienen los días y van los días y el amor queda.

The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness.

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.

One advantage of golf over bowling is that you never lose a bowling ball.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Love looks like everything I've ever lost come back to me.