Quotes About Loss

Nobody belongs to us, except in memory." (Grandparenting [1994])

The assurance from the dictionary had melted in the night.

What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.

In her rare moods of liberation she held for him the danger that she would disclose great riches within herself, showing him the depths of loss frozen over by their marriage.

Nadie nos pertenece, salvo en el recuerdo.

Piet wondered what barred him from the ranks of those many blessed who believed nothing. Courage, he supposed. His nerve had cracked when his parents died. To break with a faith requires a moment of courage, and courage is a kind of margin within us, and after his parents' swift death Piet had no margin. He lived tight against his skin, and his flattish face wore a look of tension. Also, his European sense of order insisted that he place his children in Christendom.

Maybe the dead are gods, there's certainly something kind about them, the way they give you room. What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand. The more dead you know it seems the more living there are you don't know.

What kind of second-rate grief is it that permits them to walk?

Nature is always waiting, watching for you to lose faith so she can insert her fatal stitch

Rabbit wipes her chin and mouth with his handkerchief and, for weeks afterward, when all is lost, will take out this handkerchief and bury his nose in it, in its scarcely detectable smell of distant ocean.

you were sent into life with several pieces of misinformation about dealing with loss. The six we have identified so far are: Don't feel bad. Replace the loss. Grieve alone. Just give it time. Be strong for others. Keep busy. None of these ideas leads us to the actions of discovering and completing the unfinished emotions that accrue in all relationships.

We have a very simple belief that everyone involved in a divorce is a griever. That includes children, parents, siblings, and friends of the couple. This attitude makes it easy for us. We always know that the primary issue is unresolved grief.

This handbook is designed to give you the information necessary to recover from loss. It has much to offer anyone who truly wants to feel better. It will allow you to choose completion and recovery rather than isolation and avoidance. If you use it, one word at a time, it will accelerate your recovery tenfold.

Grief is the conflicting feelings caused by the end of or change in a familiar pattern of behavior.

Grief is about a broken heart, not a broken brain. All efforts to heal the heart with the head fail because the head is the wrong tool for the job. It's like trying to paint with a hammer—it only makes a mess.

A war doesn't merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that's left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime.

I can tell you that she's not breathing," he said. "She has no heartbeat and all organ function and brain activity have stopped. Also her body temperature is now at seventy-three degrees." "So you're saying that she's dead," I said. "Well, I can't prove it, but, yes, I am leaning that way.

Everything changes, he thinks. The woman is gone and the world turns.

Kjærleiken er den ande som gjer at vi finst til Kjærleiken er den vande som vil og ikkje vil Kjærleiken er ei lykke og han er sorga di, han går der bak eit stykke og så går han forbi Kjærleiken er som lyset, det kjem og det forsvinn Kjærleiken er det gyset som seier tap og vinn

When someone we love is snatched from us, it often feels very hard to make plans.Sometimes people feel like they have lost faith in the future, or they become superstitious.

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

The bastards murdered half my family.

I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.