Quotes About Loss

death renders all faces similar.

La morte implica la privazione del diritto al movimento, perché la vita è movimento. Il corpo ucciso smette di muoversi. L'uomo è un corpo.

One period of grief is followed by another, so I am in constant mourning. This is my natural state.

We live in a state of siege. If one takes a close look at each fragment of a moment, one might choke with terror. Within our bodies disintegration inexorably advances; soon we shall fall sick and die. Our loved ones will leave us, the memory of them will dissolve in the tumult; nothing will remain. Just a few clothes in the wardrobe and someone in a photograph, no longer recognized. The most precious memories will dissipate. Everything will sink into darkness and vanish.

For people my age, the places that they truly loved and to which they once belonged are no longer there.

The world has dropped its petals.

On the other hand, maybe God was taking away my children so as to bring me closer to Jacob.

In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars… and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn't take much notice of anything… other than how heavy… and awkward the bottle had become.

When the sun has been destroyed for a man, what comfort is there in a world of moonlight?

It is a strange world that has lost children and mute lightning in it, and where two men can sit overlooking an abandoned mining town and talk in sadness and hope of building ships to whitewash far-off ocean skies.

Such power, so much death in one place at one time. Never to be forgotten.

No person should ever have to witness so much death,

Je craignais de perdre ce que j'avais enfoui dans ma mémoire, tel un bibliothécaire qui refouterait un incendie.

Les guerres sont d'immenses machines à fabriquer des âmes errantes.

The color of the flower has faded, while I lost myself in idle thought in this long rain / ???? ??????? ????? ??????? ???????

This heart, Longing for you, Breaks To a thousand pieces- I wouldn't lose one.

The flowers and my love, Passed away under the rain, While I idly looked upon them: Where is my yester-love?

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.

When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead, we should find consolation in an object that reminds you of them, something...I don't know...even an earring

La guerra è un infanticidio in massa, rinviato di vent'anni.

I understood that the most terrible thing in life is complete hopelessness... To cross out all the 'maybes' and give up the fight when you still have strength for it is the most terrible form of suicide. It's almost unbearable to watch it happening in others. Unjustified hope - salvation for the weak in spirit and intellect - irritates me. But the loss of hope is the paralysis, even the death, of the soul. Sveta, let us hope, while we still have strength to hope.

A person either hates losing enough to change or he hates changing enough to lose.

I would rather face my fears than lose, but most people would rather lose than face their fears.

Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both.