Quotes About Loss

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.

Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.

it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.

The death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize.

Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?

Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.

The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.