Quotes About Loss

Write it down, before you forget. And each day we do. But we can only write about Now. Before is already gone, except for the nightmares.

where did those words go, words that where once in my head?

I sat there for minutes, seasons, years, the wind becoming winter against my skin, the day becoming night, then blinding again, harsh with detail. I closed my eyes, but the details still shone bright and demanding behind my lids, replacing a lifetime of memories with a single bloody image of Walther, and then, mercifully, the image faded, everything faded, leaving only dull, numbing gray.

The world was so much safer when you only had yourself to lose.

The widower only sighed and puffed his cigar fiercely out of the open window. Perhaps he was thinking of that far-away time—little better than five years ago, in fact; but such an age gone by to him—when he first met the woman for whom he had worn crape round his hat three days before.

and he knew that our dreams are none the less terrible to lose, because they have never been the realities for which we have mistaken them.

The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord.' We repeated the holy sentences of resignation; but it was not resignation, it was despair that subdued the violence of our grief.

Birds cough out their lungs, fly with regret to places where their feet no longer freeze in ice. Birds start falling. Bees lie dying.

When I lost my possessions, I found my creativity," said E. Y. "Yip" Harburg, the lyricist behind The Wizard of Oz. "I felt I was being born for the first time."11

One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.

I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.

Drown'd, all drown'd, "In that great sea which nothing disembogues.

We weep for what we may never lose

Pasaré por casa de Kate. Cuando muere un ser querido los amigos vienen a verte los dos primeros días, pero es después del entierro cuando la persona que permanece en esta vida se da cuenta de que nunca volverá a ver esa cara ni oír esa voz. Es entonces cuando los amigos son realmente necesarios.

I never imagined I would lose him, she thought. Never.

Grandpapa doesn't want to lose Nelly," Eliza said. "Grandpapa is only aware of the trail of belongings Nelly has lost on this trip and thinks she had better wait before she loses her heart, too," he retorted.

En opeens zag Enrico helder voor zich wat er met zijn verloofde was gebeurd.

De duchessa is dood. - Silvia

The loss of a parent is a young child's greatest fear. To be abandoned, whether through termination of parental rights, voluntary relinquishment, death, or any other means, is a child's worst nightmare come true.

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.

Could his amnesia be a way of concealing that loss from himself because remembering would be unbearable? Mariah was an anchor in high winds, but she knew surprisingly little about his life.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

I've said it's hard. Here's how hard: everybody I know who wades deep enough into memory's waters drowns a little.

I may be furious and sad about what happened with us, but that doesn't make me believe that what we had wasn't real. And it doesn't make me believe that I won't find something that real again.