Quotes About Loss

Ante el descubrimiento de este futuro expolio, sólo existen dos actitudes posibles: o bien uno decide no encariñarse con las personas y las cosas, con el fin de que la amputación no resulte tan dolorosa; o, por el contrario, uno decide amar todavía más a las personas y las cosas, poner toda la carne en el asador, «ya que no estaremos mucho tiempo juntos, te voy a dar en un año todo el amor que te habría podido dar en una vida»

A quoi serviraient les morts, sinon à aimer les vivants davantage?

Si tu admires ta propre joliesse dans le miroir, que ce soit dans la peur et non dans le plaisir : car ta beauté ne t'apportera rien d'autre que la terreur de la perdre.

Los suspiros son aire y van al aire. Las lágrimas son agua y van al mar, dime mujer, cuando el amor se olvida, ¿sabes a donde va? –Becquer

Si por mí sólo ha latido su noble corazón, hoy mudo y yerto, ¿he de mostrarme desagradecido y olvidarla, no más porque ha partido y dejarla, no más porque se ha muerto?

En cualquier accidente que te acaezca, no digas nunca: "He perdido tal o cual objeto"; di más bien: "Lo he devuelto". ¿Acaba de morir tu hijo?: "Fue devuelto". ¿Ha muerto tu mujer?: "Fue devuelta".

156. AL PERDERTE YO A TI...   Al perderte yo a ti, tú y yo hemos perdido: yo, porque tú eras lo que yo más amaba y tú porque yo era el que te amaba más. Pero de nosotros dos tú pierdes más que yo: porque yo podré amar a otras como te amaba a ti, pero a ti no te amarán como te amaba yo.   Ernesto Cardenal

Ha de sobrarme la mitad del lecho, y ha de faltarme la mitad del alma.

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

I learned my weaknesses at the Asian Games and other competitions where I lost. My guard was down.

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

I remember I had a psychologist that I worked with in Phoenix tell me one time that the loss of a job and the loss of one's wealth is more devastating to most than losing a loved one or getting divorced. And that really hit me.

Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades of exile to finish him off.

My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart.

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

I'm sure some people haven't necessarily embraced some of the messages over the years. We've been talking about the inappropriateness of automatic weapons and guns since the late Eighties. I know we've lost some customers over the years, and in some ways, secured others.

Especially during the hot weather, we have been so greatly hampered by infections despite our utmost care, and since we have lost so many dogs, I strongly desire more help to keep the place clean and gloves and gowns and a thorough fitting up of our operating room.

Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.

I was working for Martin Finnegan. He was my best mate in racing. I went to his wedding in November 2007. No-one else from the racing world was invited apart from me and my girlfriend. The funeral was the following May.

I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.

We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it.

I have a memory of my mother kneeling in front of a cabinet in our home, tenderly cradling her wedding china. We never used the plates; she died in her 40s without ever letting herself enjoy these gorgeous pieces. I told myself that I would use my precious items.

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.