Quotes About Loss

Happiness has a high body count.

Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

flute. As I stood in the doorway, he lingered over it, then, carefully rewrapping it, placed it in his box of treasured things. I never saw the flute again. *

No, no pensaré en Gil como alguien que murió, ni tampoco pienso así en Jimmy, porque mi mente no va por esos caminos. Le echaré de menos, pero Gil sigue estando vivo en mi recuerdo, como lo está Jimmy, como lo están Trane y Bud y Monk y Bird y Mingus y Red y Paul y Wynton y todo el resto de hijoputas geniales, como Philly Joe, que ya han desaparecido de este mundo. Todos

He lives all alone now, in the home they bought, and finally seems to be managing, more or less. Not the way he was, of course, with her, who lives alone now, too, at the same address. - Separatio in Loco

The death of the child is always a model for the death of the parent. A mother gives birth in order to give life to her child; a child dies in order to shape the death of its father.

Some people are not worth it, but your fear of loosing them sometimes is bigger than your realization.

He walked until he couldn't hear her scream his name anymore. He walked rigidly and calmly, not believing that a person you loved - yes he has loved her - could end up being someone you never knew.

After losing four of his children and his wife to cholera five years ago, Shin found that he could not speak much about loss. Everything a person said sounded glib and foolish.

She has loved him, and she could not bear the thought of him being gone form this life.

It was then that Ella realized she had no mother who'd search for her in this way. She was surprised by how bitterly she felt this lack-for a contingency that would never occur.

I talk to the dead although I don't believe in ghosts. But it makes me feel good to speak with them. Maybe that is what God is. A good God wouldn't have let my babies die. I can't believe in that. My babies did nothing wrong." "I agree. They did nothing wrong." He looked at her thoughtfully. "But a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet. He wouldn't be God. There's more to everything than we can know.

When she was there, she had not loved it enough.

Every year, she cleaned the graves of her siblings; her

That evening, when Noa did not call her, she realized that she had not given him her home number in Yokohama. In the morning, Hansu phoned her. Noa had shot himself a few minutes after she'd left his office.

He could never replace her. And he felt he had done her a great injustice by not having told her this.

she knew what it was like to lose your children—it was like you were cursed and nothing would ever restore the desolation of your life.

Her mother had shrunk.

It had been eleven years since he'd died; the pain didn't go away, but its sharp edge had dulled and softened like sea glass.

There was always talk of Koreans going back home, but in a way, all of them had lost the home in their minds for good.

After losing four of his children and his wife to cholera five years ago, Shin found that he could not speak much about loss. Everything a person said sounded glib and foolish...His faith had not wavered, but his temperament had altered seemingly forever. It was as if a warm room had gotten cooler, but it was still the same room.

never be a doctor. He couldn't see how he'd ever make any money in Korea when honest Koreans were losing property every day.

Are you dying?" she asked. "It's prostate cancer. I have very good doctors. I don't think I'll die of this. Not very soon, anyway." "You lied then." "No Sunja, we're all dying." She felt angry with him for lying, but she felt grateful, too. She had loved him, and she could not bear the thought of him being gone from this life.