Quotes About Loss

Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.

My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?

Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

It's a matter of dignity, " the Chief explained. "At a certain point, that's all you have left.

It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.

We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.