Quotes About Loss

It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.

Death is never polite, even when we expect it.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.

... And death unloads thee.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.

Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.

You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.

A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.