Quotes About Loss

And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

I lost all I had known and gained a life I was yet to know.

Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.

Loss reshapes us and teaches us to fill ourselves with something new. If we resist, we feel as you do. Hollow. Empty.

My mom used to say that's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory—hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures.

The way I see it, he's all we have left ofher.

You sip the water from the same ocean in which all the hope was lost. Us

No loss is big enough to lose hope for tommorrow.

Upon hearing the news I felt completely emptied. Emptied of life, feeling, and hope. I felt as if my very soul had left my body.

It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be easily transfused. Instead she was losing her dreams.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.

The only way that a mother would go after her own children is if she's just completely gone and has no humanity.

The way of humanity is to turn everything into a marketable product. But when we turn something into a marketable product it loses something.

The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

But then again...perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I'm simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.

The moment you betray your heart is the moment you lose everything.

The death of a dog may not by some be regarded as a tragedy, but some dogs are more worthy than some men, and can be more justly mourned.

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

I went to the dentist. He said "Say Aaah." I said "Why?" He said "My dog's died."