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Quotes About Loss

Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.
~ Unknown
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fear
~ Unknown
War doesn't determine who is right, only who is left.
~ Unknown
You can't make someone love you, and while you try, you lose the people who really care.
~ Unknown
pWhen your parents pass away, you have no home at all - only your children do.
~ Upamanyu Chatterjee
When your parents pass away, you have no home at all - only your children do.
~ Upamanyu Chatterjee
And throughout all, Trudi wove the assurance...that - once someone had been in your life - you could keep that person there despite the agony of loss, as long as you had faith that you could bring the sum of all your hours together in one shining moment.
~ Ursula Hegi
I was feeling like somebody is coming to take everything that I like and just make me to sad.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
Other days when he has come from or doesn't want to go to a shift at work, he is wild, sucking away everything I thought I knew about the way I'm supposed to be in this world. I feel like a star caught in the gravitational pull of a black hole, unraveling, spinning under the control of some unseen force, torn into streams of fire forever spiraling, never to be put together again.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
Niin. Riihen taka ne aina häviää... Riihen taka meiltä hävitään kun lähdetään... Kapinaan taikka sotaan, ammuttavaksi taikka työhön... Mihinkä kullonkin mennään...
~ Unknown
succour me. Too well I see the demon band The slaughter of my love have
~ V?lm?ki
I failed her. And she's out of my life. I don't even know where she's living. What she's doing to get through the days. And I miss her. Every single day, I miss her.
~ Val McDermid
Everything that just recently had seemed eternal and solid as rock was so quickly turned into rack and ruin you just wanted to shut your eyes and forget.
~ Unknown
There's nothing left holy in the world for you. Herods!
~ Unknown
Why are you taking away my last hope that I had lived to some purpose?
~ Unknown
There wasn't much of that watch left to save, but he put a couple of the bigger pieces in his pocket. "It was my dad's," he said, his eyes getting puffy and red. "My dad was a famous runner.
~ Unknown
The tiny bud the parents nurtured does not seem to have bloomed into the magnificent flower they expected. Parents feel as if they have been cheated or robbed; their family seems irretrievably lost to them.
~ Unknown
Cuando vean los cuerpos de sus hijos y hermanos, o se resignarán a la suerte o decidirán vengarse, pero a cada uno le será restituido el cuerpo de su pariente.
~ Unknown
Esta es la verdadera gloria, wanax Odiseo; el llanto de quien nos ama cuando dejamos este mundo.
~ Unknown
You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
~ Vance Havner
Claudine tells me there was fluid around Bolombe's heart. That the stress of his capture was too much. I always thought hearts were broken, but apparently they drown.
~ Unknown
Well, I've been here since thirty-eight. I was at Elgen first. I did thirty childbirths there; before Elgen I hadn't done any. Then came the war. My husband died in Kiev. So did my two children. Boys. A bomb. More people have died around me than in any battle in war. They died when there was no war, before there was a war. All the same. Grief is like happiness: it comes in all forms.
~ Varlam Shalamov
Le persone che più mi hanno giovato, e con le quali speravo di fare un lungo pezzo di strada, ora questo ora quello, mi sono scappate davanti agli occhi senza saper come
~ Unknown
What is it to inhabit a world? How does one make the world one's own? What is it to lose one's world?
~ Unknown