Quotes About Loss

Remember that no man loses other life than that which he lives, nor lives other than that which he loses.

Alzheimer's was far more terrifying than death.

He'd died before she moved to Chicago, but she'd followed the story of his shooting with the same queasy horror as the killings of Freddie Gray and Eric Garner.

To learn the true value of something, all you had to do was lose it.

Sheila, sweetheart, I'm dying here

To learn the true value of something, all you had to do was lose it. Brody poured drinks in crystal tumblers.

All he felt was that same feeling he'd always had, that he was looking for something, whose name he didn't even know, and yet now, in the dark of the night and with his father had gone to wherever his mother had gone before, with Anna sitting beside him, he suddenly knew its name. Home.

You have life written all over you. Some people bear tragedy on their faces; loss, death, whatever it might be. But you have life.

That is how the dead survive: they live in our memories, and some of the times that is a good thing and beautiful, and other times it is not good, and then the dead are like a virus in the blood, an infection of the mind. Then,

That is how the dead survive: they live in our memories, and some of the times that is a good thing and beautiful, and other times it is not good, and then the dead are like a virus in the blood, an infection of the mind.

He has departed, withdrawn, gone away, broken out.

The only time I have ever seen my father cry in my whole life was the day he watched JFK's funeral procession on television.

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.

One of the things about totalitarianism is that people disappear, and you can't find out what happened to them.

No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

A divorce is like an amputation, you survive but there's less of you.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

Some things can be recovered. Some things can be restored. But some lost things, we seek forever.

Come gli manca uno sguardo così. Se non lo conosci vivacchi e non ti manca. Ma se una stronza ti ha posato addosso quelle ali lì, ti ha fatto sentire l'eroe di una sceneggiatura temeraria, rimani tutta la vita un mendicante che va in giro a cercare quelle palpebre che si aprono solo per guardarti e si chiudono per imprigionarti.

Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of.

We were like two wolves that have chased a prey and lost it: They lie together in the dark woods, panting and weary, and they're still hungry.

Ne vem, h?erka moja, kam gredo ljudje, ki umrejo, vem le, kje ostanejo.