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Quotes About Loss

It will affect me in ways I can't even begin to get my mind around. This day is a dark crater. There is no room for songs. The songs are wrong. Every song is wrong. And I don't know what to do without music.
~ David Levithan
How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.
~ David Levithan
And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't.
~ David Levithan
You made me lose my appetite, Boomer. My mom tells me that all the time. Your family must be just like mine!
~ David Levithan
He doesn't just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.
~ David Levithan
This is what a memorial is: Standing still, staring at something that isn't there.
~ David Levithan
The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.
~ David Levithan
We saw our friends die. But we also see our friends live. So many of them live, and we often toast their long and full lives. They carry us on.
~ David Levithan
Each of us has our own unit of measurement, our own relativity. Spaces between loves. Spaces between destinations. Spaces between deaths.
~ David Levithan
You know what happens to girls who loves lost boys? They become lost themselves.
~ David Levithan
You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.
~ David Levithan
Whatever you had -- I don't know what it was, and that's fine. But it must not be easy for you. You miss him, and that's okay. But you have to figure that if it's too much hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.
~ David Levithan
Maybe relationships could have fractals, too. And maybe the sense of loss was when you're becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other.
~ David Levithan
If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.
~ David Levithan
Even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.
~ David Levithan
My beacon is gone and I'm drowning now. The storm is all around me and I can't even save myself. I don't even know if I want to. She's gone.
~ David Levithan
I try to hear her voice, try to separate that single pitch from the shouts and applause. But she's as lost to me as she was the night I cried and she didn't turn back to see if I was okay. Three weeks, two days, and twenty-three hours ago. And she's already with someone else.
~ David Levithan
It was too heartbreaking to live with so many separations.
~ David Levithan
What's gone is gone.
~ David Levithan
Just be warned, you said. Some day you will ask me to give up something I really love, and then it`s going to get ugly.
~ David Levithan
I guess that's the danger with firsts—you lose all sense of proportion. So I made a fool of myself, even though I didn't realize it at the time. I was so devoted to him.
~ David Levithan
Love means never having to lose your limbs.
~ David Levithan
It's like I've landed in the most perfect place in the universe. And then it blows up.
~ David Levithan
he's walking away and at the same time i feel like i'm the one leaving him behind.
~ David Levithan