Quotes About Loss

awkward parent. His mother died in childbirth

Everyone is too young when their mother dies.

Nada es tan melancólico como la muerte de la belleza.

In one day alone, at the end of December, as a result of frostbite, more than fourteen thousand German soldiers had been forced to submit to amputation. Not all of them survived the operation.

People do not resist change, per se. People resist loss. You appear dangerous to people when you question their values, beliefs, or habits of a lifetime. You place yourself on the line when you tell people what they need to hear rather than what they want to hear. Although you may see with clarity and passion a promising future of progress and gain, people will see with equal passion the losses you are asking them to sustain.

Behold, from faith thus flow forth love and joy in the Lord, and from love a joyful, willing, and free mind that serves ones neighbor willingly and takes no account of gratitude or ingratitude, of praise or blame, of gain or loss.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Grief expressed out loud for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses.

Grief expressed out loud, whether in or out of character, unchoreographed and honest, for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

Like the old adage, you never knew what you had till it was gone.

Why did you have to lose something before you could fully appreciate it?

once your mother was gone, they were gone, and no one could ever replace them.

missed her mother and her sister so badly it was a constant pain inside of her.

She already looked dead and Eileen knew that it couldn't be long before she went. But even though she knew it would be a happy release for her mother, the thought of her never being there ever again was terrifying. She depended on her so much, needed her so desperately that even though she knew it was selfish, she prayed her mother pulled through as she had before.

It is life that hurts you not death.

Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she found the best sort of perfection--the kind that never demands it of others.

Death is the ending of all true stories.

In the impermanence of life, it was impossible to accept the foreverness of death.

I sing just to sing it all to the surface. All the things we can't hold on to: life as it once was and isn't any longer, I guess.

Hanno avuto troppa paura di avermi persa per sempre. E poi sono tornata. E' un miracolo. Io sono un miracolo. E loro non riescono a credere che non sparirò un'altra volta. E' buffo, io non mi sono mai considerata scomparsa. Come si sparisce da se stessi?

Buildings had collapsed-once tall and mighty, now headstones for the thousands buried underneath.

And quickly. If you let it, grief could swallow you whole.