Quotes About Loss

I don't like funerals, and a while ago I just stopped going to them. I think the ceremony is a form of denial, and when my wife died and my daughter, Cady, informed me that she was unaware of any instance where going to somebody's funeral ever brought them back, I just about gave it up.

empty can back on the bar. There wasn't anything here for me, my head hurt, I was tired, and it was possible that I'd lose my patience, so I figured the best thing for it was to go

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground." "Voltaire?" I shook my head. "An old African proverb.

There is a common humanity in all of us, and if you need something from somebody, you'd better understand that—it makes the job easier. Clarence might be guilty and we need to be aware because we are in the suspicion business, but he's also a man who just lost someone who was very close to him.

damaged as to be of no further use. These losses were due

My world fell away from me. Agony stabbed my chest.

My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

You have robbed me of all the dignity I had for myself.

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

It's impossible to hold on to anything really. Everything slips away in due time.

When someone dies, it doesn't leave a hole, and that's the agony.

And I would discover how much of life is defined by what you want to keep and what you are forced to lose.

I thought suddenly, what is the meaning of all these things? All these bags and bags I've been packing? We could take everything we have with us. We could take every single thing that every single person in the world has ever had. But not of it would mean anything to me. Because no matter how much I took and no no matter how much I had for the rest of my life, I didn't have him anymore. I could have piled everything from here straight to heaven. None of it was him.

I learned something about grief. When someone dies, it doesn't leave a hole, and that's the agony.

Con el pésame más profundo y las bendiciones de Dios por la pérdida de alguien tan querido

I took his razor from the shower floor, bits of his black hair still caked between the blades. I took his toothbrush from the sink counter and sucked on the bristles, trying to find the taste of him, but there was only the flavor of watery mint toothpaste....I pulled the sheets off the bed with the idea that I could gather up the imprint of him and save it. I thought, I can unfurl the sheets on our old bed at home. I can lie in the creases formed by his body. I can sleep with him again.

I kissed her again and again and again, greedily, like I was making up for the time I'd lost, like I was making up for all the times I might not get to kiss her again once our parents found out what we'd done, like I was making up for my whole life when I hadn't known her, which seemed unbelievable and like a crime.

Ella ha desaparecido y con ella toda una época… Se cierra el período glorioso que simbolizaba su nombre».

We have all been exiled from something or someone. I think this is a human condition

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.

My father had been buried for a month when my mother came back to claim me. She returned as somebody even I didn't recognize—a spirit barely alive imprisoned in her body, a husk. When we returned home, I mourned as much for the loss of my mother as I did for my father. Even then her shoulders had started to slump in surrender. Her skin had begun to wrinkle.

But it was long before then that I realized that my mother was no longer there. That she had died with my father. I was a little girl being raised by spirits. In

A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.