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Quotes About Loss

My wife was saying to me just the other day how she's noticed a spring in my step lately. That was because I thought you were gone forever.' 'I missed you too, Thurid.
~ Derek Landy, Dark Days
But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.
~ Irvine Welsh, Porno
All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away.
~ Terry Pratchett
THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!
~ Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.
~ Pablo Neruda
And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
~ John Dryden
Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
~ Bryan Procter
We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.
~ Lloyd Jones
The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.
~ Wallace Stevens
That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.
~ Gary Player
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
~ Ronald Reagan
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
~ Kris Kristofferson
Though I lost you years ago, I dreamed you were here. That dream gave me the inspirational feeling that I could make it one more day.
~ Jon Jones
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
~ Anais Nin
Do not pity the dead, Harry.
~ J. K. Rowling
What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever.
~ Ethel Percy Andrus
God never said that we wouldn't have unfair situations, that we wouldn't experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen.
~ Joel Osteen
It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day
~ Joni Mitchell