Quotes About Loss

Tallal, Lawrence relates, gave a moan like a hurt animal. Then he rode off to higher ground and remained there for some moments, shivering violently and staring after the retreating Turks. Lawrence moved to speak with him, but Auda caught his rein and stopped him. In one blow, in one moment, Tallal had lost every person in the world who mattered to him. and the older Auda, wiser in this matter than lawrence, realized that Tallal now had nothing left to live for.

more than 50 per cent of Amstetten's menfolk who had marched off to fight for Hitler did not make it back home.

Life doesn't make sense. It's against the law for somebody to steal your bike but apparently it doesn't matter if somebody tries to steal your best friend. Well you can always get a new bike. But how do you replace a best friend

They were blown off my feet when the South Tower collapsed

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Nothing guarantees our freedom. Deny it often enough and one day it will be gone, and we'll not know how or when.

There's a pain deeper than death...

She would survive because that was what she did. But the pain of a loss--the grief for something she could never have--would haunt her.

Saying good-bye when you know it's for the last time is like no other sadness you will ever experience.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

Nothing is different here and now than it used to be: The people whom I need most are gone, and the ones who remain do nothing to help me get to where I need to go. Different names, different faces, but the end result is still the same.

After Megan's death, Tyler spiraled downward into an abyss of steely blankness, as if Megan were the only color in his life, and without it, there was only white, black, and gray. He numbed his pain with booze, and slowly, wrenchingly, pulled away from all of us, isolating himself in an angry cocoon, where none of us could reach him and he didn't want to be reached.

When you lose your parents young, there is simply a blight on your psyche that becomes part of your being. Really,

Listen to me." He grabbed my arms, holding me there. " I couldn't find you. And I will never forgive myself for that. Ever.

Time, the greatest thief of all.

Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.

Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.

Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.

Sweetheart, when you lose someone, you lose a little bit of yourself, too. And that missing piece? Sometimes you have to lose the rest of yourself to find it.

Hes gone. Hes just gone.

No! I need to go home," I say, but then the realization comes: My mother was my home. My mother is dead.

I know. I'm sorry." And the bizarre part is that I really am. I want to be good, to use the right fork and wear a pretty linen dress to breakfast. I want to be the girl in the pictures upstairs. But I can't be. That girl is dead.

I was thirteen when I saw my mother die, when I told my story. When I started "having a hard time," as my grandfather likes to say. Would they have locked me up if I'd been thirty? If I'd been a boy? It's a question I do not dare to ask.

Leaving can't be nearly as hard as being left, Cam.