Quotes About Loss

He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.

Love flies out the window when poverty comes in the door, they say, and it's true.

Good night. I'm Cinderella without her prince. Do you know where to find me in Tokyo? You won't see me again.

The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people.

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

I was plagued by a heavy sense of loss, as if my heart had become empty.

I had the feeling that were Mother to die, my own flesh would melt away with her.

Cette nuit-là nous nous précipitâmes dans la mer à Kamakura. Tsune-ko dénoua sa ceinture, la plia et la posa sur un rocher. J'enlevai mon manteau, le plaçai à côté et nous nous jetâmes ensemble dans la mer. Tsune-ko mourut. Moi seul fut sauvé.

Around that time, I lost interest in college. I could only see blackness

He was dead, that familiar, frightening presence who had never left my heart for a split second. I felt as though the vessel of my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.

As for love … no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.

death was one thing but he couldn't bear the thought of letting good wine go to waste

I yearned for everything long gone

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

Her hair has turned quite gold from grief.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

I can't find my mother

Petersburg! I still possess a list of addresses,Which will help me to hear the voices of the dead.

In my loving dying heart a twilight is coming, a last ray, gently reproaching. from Stone: 24 By Osip Mandelstam Translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin

When "important" individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do—to look into the face of God for ourselves.

Ein Andenken", sagte der Junge. "Von einem Mädchen wohl?" "Nein", sagte Krabat. "Von einem Freund, wie es keinen mehr geben wird auf der Welt." "Das weißt du bestimmt?", fragte Juro. "Das", sagte Krabat, "weiß ich für Zeit und Ewigkeit.

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.