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Quotes About Loss

It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.
~ George P. Bush
There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible.
~ George W. Bush
We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.
~ Gerald Brenan
The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out, O soul brides of the Husband Lord, and dwell on the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.
~ Guru Nanak
And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead. Go to thy deathbed. He never will come again.
~ William Shakespeare
My dad's death reminds me of earthquakes - things that shake your foundation.
~ Tim Allen
Death strips all men of dignity.
~ Tobsha Learner
I'm so sad to hear the horrible news of Amy Winehouse's death. I'm so happy I knew you Amy...Rest Well. Gone Too Soon...we'll miss you!!
~ Usher
By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
~ W. H. Auden
A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
~ William Butler Yeats
There's death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.
~ William Goldman
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
~ William Shakespeare
The gloomy shade of death.
~ William Shakespeare
Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.
~ William Shakespeare
When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.
~ William Shakespeare
The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!
~ William Shakespeare
Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
And will 'a not come again? And will 'a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to thy death bed: He will never come again.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.
~ Stephen King, Bag of Bones
I am dying Egypt dying.
~ William Shakespeare
Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
~ William Shakespeare
First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes and then our fears - and when These are dead the debt is due Dust claims dust - and we die too.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.
~ Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland
Part of us did die. Literally - that tissue on your face, the part they removed. It died. And you can't recover from any kind of death without mourning it.
~ Unknown