Quotes About Loss

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.

when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.

I give you life in the memory of one who no longer lives. May you have a long life, and may you thank Matthew every day for it.

Están robándonos las ovejas. Así describió un jesuita la oleada de cambios que barren el cristianismo en América Latina,

En el siglo XXI, el poder es más fácil de adquirir, más difícil de utilizar y más fácil de perder. Desde las salas de juntas y las zonas de combate hasta el ciberespacio, las luchas de poder son tan intensas como lo han sido siempre, pero cada vez dan menos resultados.

Certainty fell away from me as though a loved person dropped my hand in indifference.

for a ring which Lady Grizel had lost – her engagement ring – star sapphire and diamonds.

Despite all her efforts to not be one of those historical romance heroines, walking into the marble foyer and seeing the slick hardwood floors beyond, the glittering chandeliers and sconces, she felt like one. She felt small and alone. And like maybe her dad lost her in a poker game.

There are worse things than love.

And that the surest way to bring destruction upon the things she wanted was to want them in the first place. Her

A rage so sharp it turned to grief. A grief so big it turned to rage.

I loved him in the way that one loves those who no longer matter: poignantly.

Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.

I can't stay," said Chanu, and they clung to each other inside a sadness that went beyond words and tears, beyond that place, those causes and consequences, and became a part of their breath, their marrow, to travel with them from now to wherever they went.

Where we grew up, we didn't learn how to live. We learned how to bury the land, seal life off. There was an unacknowledged backdrop to being a kid on land that was fast turning into strip malls, when you loved trees and a silent corporate presence kept showing up to knock the trees down. It was the helpless sense that everything you ever loved could be destroyed, without debate.

We're mourning and celebrating at the same time, so drink.

but she was four years, three months, and sixty-one days old when she died.

The truth was that in the end, sad felt better than rage - a lot better. But rage came easier. Sad felt like the world was ending. (150)

Just as Sarah Keeler had taught me that children die, Wendy taught me that you don't have to wade through the insanity; you can get off the bus. This scared me so much that a sweaty panic swept over me. From that moment on I knew it was possible to end my own life. (157)

Losses may make us feel as if time had stopped. Families may close down, attempting to control those aspects of their world over which they still have some power, since in the one area that really matters --- human relationships --- they have lost a sense of control.

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

En même temps, il perçoit soudain avec acuité ce qu'il est en train de perdre, une accalmie dans sa vie hérissée de violence, quelques heures de trève pour s'assoupir un peu, à vrai dire pas grand chose, juste de quoi rendre l'existence supportable.