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Quotes About Loss

It's a breath you took too late.It's a death that's worse than fate.
~ Elvis Costello
It's almost funny, in a tragic way, that the fiery thing at the center of my universe did die and that I, a girl whose name is synonymous with summer, am expected to live without it.
~ Emily Henry, A Million Junes
People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad.
~ Colleen Hoover, Slammed
I lost my beautiful mind with a nasty lady, i give her the true pure of love and she gives me a slow poison of death
~ Unknown
All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past. The only thing that really separates us is time. It's a matter of perspective. That's what separates optimism and pessimism.
~ Unknown
Full of beautiful grace so we steal their space, and death comes quickly.
~ Sara Quin
I realized that that was how heartbreak occurred. Your heart wants something, but reality resists it. Death is inert and heavy, and it has no relation to your heart's desires.
~ Unknown
Our atheist thoughts go out to his family following their loss.
~ Brian Spellman
The only thing scarier than death is the disappearance from youth.
~ Marc Spitz
When he whispered my name, that's when I knew- this was how death felt.
~ Ashley Madau
Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die.
~ Alastair Reynolds
She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.
~ John Scalzi, Old Man's War
How terrible, " said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to
~ Christopher Paolini, Eldest
Death takes in many people, but still lives alone.
~ Anthony Liccione
Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone.
~ Joan Didion
In a time like that, the past meets you wherever you turn. The days do not use their own hours and minutes, they find ones you have lived through with the person you are missing.
~ Unknown
I'd gotten someone killed.The price people seem to pay for crossing my path.
~ Marie Lu, Prodigy
I can see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.
~ Unknown
You will take his life but you can't take his memory out of us.
~ Auliq Ice
I was dead, and I hadn't even been able to attend my own funeral.
~ Unknown
I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me.
~ Maija Haavisto, The Atlas Moth
I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric.
~ Zadie Smith, Swing Time
We know everyone we love is going to die, but we don't know it, can't possibly believe it, she thought, or long ago I would have gone and started digging until I had a hole big enough to lie down in.
~ Unknown
There will be no beautiful widow with Persian eyes sitting at your grave. And teary-eyed kids won't be asking: "Papa, papa, can you hear us?
~ Ilya Ilf