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Quotes About Loss

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart
~ Marilyn Monroe
I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I think I hate it here because there is no love here anymore. I regret the effort I desperately made here.
~ Marilyn Monroe
The way you feel about somebody who was dead was different from how you feel about somebody who was alive. You could always love somebody who was dead, and you never had to worry about how that person felt about you. That person wasn't going to get mad at you if you didn't look for her box over the weekend. But a living person was going to get mad if you didn't show up.
~ Unknown
Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
For all the philosophical treatises and for all the assurances of the medical profession, there is no cure for the simple fact that we must leave each other.
~ Marilyn Yalom
Friendship matters, especially in old age, when death reduces the number of one's friends.
~ Marilyn Yalom
Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.
~ Marilynne Robinson
In a nutshell, revenge cannot reverse the loss.
~ Unknown
What happened in war? People died -- that's what happened.' He fixed me with that stubborn clenched-jaw look. 'Those who were bravest perished first. Those who believed in something died for belief. Those who survived...' He starts to cough. 'You know that more than twenty million Soviet citizens perished in this war.
~ Marina Lewycka
Each tombstone was like the cover of a book that had been sealed forever.
~ Unknown
Moving to America felt as splitting and eternal as death.
~ Unknown
I closed my eyes and wondered if heaven had a Lost and Found. I had left many things behind.
~ Unknown
Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight.
~ Marina Tavares Dias
When the things you love exist only inside your memory they cannot be destroyed or taken from you.
~ Marina Tavares Dias
São vários os orfãos dos cafés. Quem os frequentou e perdeu abrigo, mas, sobretudo, quem busca em vão um domicílio para a sua relação com a cidade.
~ Marina Tavares Dias
En definitiva, ¿importa algo la memoria? "A veces me siento desdichada, nada más que de no saber qué es lo que estoy echando de menos", murmuró Blanca, mientras repartía los duraznos en almíbar. Nos tocaron tres y medio a cada uno.
~ Mario Benedetti
Mire, yo le puedo asegurar que cuando una mujer se pierde, siempre hay un hombre ruin, cretino, denigrante, que primero le hizo perder la fe en sí misma".
~ Mario Benedetti
murió es el derrumbe de la vida, murió viene de adentro, trae la verdadera respiración del dolor, murió es la desesperación, la nada frígida y total, el abismo sencillo, el abismo.
~ Mario Benedetti
Por qué debería estar triste? He perdido a gente que no me amaba. Pero ellos perdieron a alguien que los amaba.
~ Mario Benedetti
y de pronto el sintio, que sin ella sus brazos estaban vacios, que sin ella sus ojos no tenian que mirar
~ Mario Benedetti
Mujer de sal y rocío tu corazón sigue en celo y tu voz está de duelo como la tierra y el río.
~ Mario Benedetti
Allí donde normalmente va la dignidad, él sólo tiene un muñón; se la amputaron.
~ Mario Benedetti