Quotes About Loss

every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.

Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.

After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

Birth, not death, is the hard loss.

My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day.

And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

No mother should lose her child.

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

Failure too is a form of death.

Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?

If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had to deal with.

I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.