Quotes About Loss

the South is so heavy in her mouth my eyes fill up with the missing of everything and everyone I've ever known.

Sometimes people don't get a chance to say good-bye, Stag.

He went way up in the air and when he came down again, he got up and ran away. But he stopped at the corner, Angel says. And died.

know now that what is tragic isn't the moment. It is the memory.

When I took these things from the house: some tapes, some books, my winter clothes, I did not know that these would become the things I own.

Somehow, my brother and I grew up motherless yet halfway whole. My brother had the faith my father brought him to, and for a long time, I had Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, the four of us sharing the weight of growing up Girl in Brooklyn, as though it was a bag of stones we passed among ourselves saying, Here. Help me carry this.

He felt like he had lost something. Something more than his virginity. Like something had been taken from him and he could never get it back. He felt like a punk thinking this. Iris had given it up to him. So why was he feeling like this? Why was he feeling like some promise the universe made had been broken? Damn.

When you're young and your mother leaves, something inside of you fills up with the absence of her. I don't know how to explain. For a long time, there was this place inside of me where love for Marion should have been but wasn't.

My body has cried out for you every single minute of every day since you left me.

When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.

Now I know that, when you lose a child, it's not the same as losing a contemporary, even a beloved husband or wife. When you lose a child, you grieve as a child grieves, which is to say, you grieve backward. You don't get better as time passes, you get worse. Time does not take you closer to acceptance, only further from the one you love.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that knowing how you should be reacting to a loss has anything to do with how you react when it's your loss.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Et je comprends soudain que perdre son nom équivaut à perdre son ombre ; se réduire à son nom c'est se réduire à son ombre.

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

My blood is become water; youth is frozen into senility; all things worth while are gone.

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Anxiety, as we know, is always connected with a loss…with a two-sided relation on the point of fading away to be superseded by something else, something which the patient cannot face without vertigo

Et la mer efface sur le sable Les pas des amants désunis

Te voici Sujette à la Mort Etale ton Bien sur le Sol Poches, lettres, photos, paroles, Te voici Sujet en ta Mort. Te voici Corps perdant tout Corps Perdant tes lèvres, tes paroles, Chevelure noire du sol Au bord d'une Mort sans rebord. Ici le présent retenu Que tu ne tiendras pas, que tu Laisses continuer sa cible. Là ma mémoire sans projet Sans impossibles, sans possibles, Dont ta Mort est l'autre Sujet.

The minutes seeped away like wine from a barrel.

Time and again we have come across phenomena eminently worthy of being investigated - only to have them disappear before we could make eve a visual record... Without being unduly pessimistic, I would say that, for every success we have had in filming or recording a matter of scientific interest, we have had ten failures. - p 46 Life and death in a coral sea

Her heart lurched and tears burned her eyes. "Surely you can escape." "Not this time." He captured a tear that rolled down her cheek. "Don't cry. You've given me more joy than I've ever known." "It's not enough." He gave her a sad grin. "That's how pirates are made. The plunder we take is never enough. We're never content with what we have. We always want more.

In one hearing, Levin estimated that $70 billion in tax revenue was lost each year because it was hidden offshore.