Quotes About Loss

That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realise that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow were all right. We go on

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

He had been greeted by a black screen with one word in white block letters: Tragedy.

Jason Bookman, right hand to Parable founder, Dorian Purcell, and his pilot died today in the crash of a helicopter owned by the company.

Once you've loved someone, the love is always there, even after they're gone.

memory serves her, that was the month that Tanner Walsh died.

don't mean to be macabre, but I realized I don't know how Tanner Walsh died.

The cause of death was drowning.

From time to time he heard himself whimpering in grief. Love was the best thing when you had it, and the most terrible thing when it was taken from you.

The day in Pico Mundo when I lost Stormy will forever be the worst day of my life, although since then each place I go seems in one way or another to be darker than the place before it.

There's nowhere on Earth where people haven't died in sorry ways.

Soon, both of the Dawson children would be slaughtered, reduced to nothing more than bloody mounds of dead meat.

we're finally getting a little wisdom when we're able to see that even loss can be beautiful if it makes us love more the things we haven't lost.

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.

for every loss there is an equal or greater gain. Often humans have to search for it, though.

When I first learned that Paul had been killed, the grief had been all-consuming, and I didn't think I would be able to go on. Yet life continues to move forward, and so have I, dragging from one day into the next until I found I could breathe normally.

The death of a child forever scars a mother's heart.

Justine refused to risk the pain that real closeness could bring. She'd been with her twin brother when he died, and the love she felt for him had turned into agony. Caught up in her own grief, Olivia had failed to recognize the devastating effect his death had had on her daughter.

those years didn't happen and take

I miss him, even now. I know you do. That's the price we pay when we love. It's joy and loss all wrapped up in one package. The thing you need to hold onto is that while the heart may shatter into a thousand pieces, the soul remains intact.

One adjusts, although you never fully recover from the loss of a loved one.

He had heard that from others but hadn't recognized the truth until his own father had gone. Maybe if he hadn't been so involved with Angie he would have seen to his father's business affairs sooner and they wouldn't be in this mess now. What did he know about all these legal matters? Darn little. His father had known he was close to death

We hold on to our pain, our loss, our rejections, like a kid with a favorite toy. Why take the risk? Why get involved? It's costly to let go of all the garbage we carry, the pain we've nursed like a colicky baby. That's why we reject the very thing we want most. We're afraid it might lead to something more, something good, and that's what we find downright uncomfortable.

It was the sad you get when your dreams are almost there…and then they're obliterated.