Quotes About Loss

Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

I didn't realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

I strongly believe that each preventable death is one death too many.

I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

Death deserves dignity.

JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.

For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.

After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

Death is my lover and he wants to move in.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

Oh that moment when Daniel thought he'd lost her to Cam's starshot! His wings hat felt too heavy to lift. Colder than death. In that instant , he'd given up all hope.

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

It is so much easier to grieve for the dead than to care for the living. At least in death we are all perfect.

What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed.

A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living.