Quotes About Loss

I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve to make me remember it forever.

One characteristic apparently common to all chess players is a refusal to admit that their position in a lost game was truly indefensible.

Nicky and I were devastated. We adored Princess Diana. Now she was in Heaven with Marilyn, forever young, forever perfect. We didn't stop to wonder why everyone wants women to stay young if dying is the only way to do it.

Had I known but yesterday what I know today, I'd have taken out your two grey eyes and put in eyes of clay. And had I known but yesterday you'd be no more my own, I'd have taken out your heart of flesh and put in one of stone.

Sentimentul este ceva ce se poate pierde ca un ceas, epuiza încet ca un cont în banc? ÅŸi reg?si ca o p?l?rie.

C'est étrange, se disait-il, que l'on aime les gens, qu'ils disparaissent, et que l'on continue à les aimer, mais dans sa tête, pour soi, sans le leur dire. Comme si le fait de ne plus être en contact n'enlevait rien à leur présence.

J'ai le regret de votre mère. Chacun des souvenirs que j'ai gardés de mon épouse est un morceau de joie que je ne retrouverai jamais.

Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced.

The defeated go down in history and disappear, and their stories die with them.

he's beginning to understand that grief doesn't strike bargains. There's no way of avoiding the agony—or even of getting through it faster. It's got him in its claws and it won't let go till he's learnt every lesson it has to teach.

nothing could easily erase the vision of Alice, crawling with lice, or Mama, eyes clenched shut under one more indignity, one more reminder of who we were, and what we had lost.

I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.

Our whole raison d'être was deterrent force. When you don't deter them any longer, you lose.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.

My mother who died young In an outlandish rhythm Would have been seventy now And perhaps dead in funeral time. So I may start to mourn As I would celebrate The first or second birthday Of a still-born baby. - Out of Season

Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.

He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He'd discovered that he had never been brave before—just indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.

Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.

I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by.

Death is part of life," he told her. "Without the one, it is hard to have the other.

death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.

They're all dead," Ruth wept, her hands in front of her face as if she could not bear what she'd seen. It reminded me oddly of the weeping angels from Doctor Who.