Quotes About Loss

I think...I think its always been you who was dying, "- Delaney

Death is never swift... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After

Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels differentwhen they're gone.

Dante: Evergreens aren't supposed to die

I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by.

Death was kind." He drew a sharp breath. "But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child.

That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to.

Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise up from the dead.

As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.

Some of us hover when we weep for the other who wasdying since the day they were born.

As he watches the sun rise, what grieves him is that he failed her. He thinks of the terror she felt. They tell him it was quick, as if that will somehow confine the horror.

When your people are lying dead around you, don't come crying to me...

She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in front of the hardware store... He had not even had time to get into the store...

How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana.

If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.

Death preserves an ideal.

They had lived and known glory, and then they were ddead. She was alive and they were not, and nothing but a heartbeat separated her from them

I know I should look away, let him grieve in private, but I cannot. The sweet girl that I knew only briefly is the key to this gentle beast who has captured my heart.

For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits.

They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they couldn't answer.

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again...

Only the dead has seen th end of war

Mais, dans la mort d'un homme, un monde inconnu meurt, et je me demandais quelles étaient les images qui sombraient en lui.

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?