Quotes About Loss

Those loves have gone beyond now, rocketed off to Antares while you were buffing your table with beeswax polish to get some glow back to your life, make it mean something because that's the fear, isn't it, all this time on the cloud-swathed earth that you haven't done what you were meant to, some large and noble design you've occasionally caught glimpses of, and lost.

These kids have no innocence anymore

It felt like the times were good, like we were remembering a time before Rachel died, even though things were never this good then, because they were just normal, and ordinary is never the kind if good you remember.

Why is it that for everything you gain in life, something is always lost?

Déjà, il était trop tard. Ils ne savaient bien. L'ennemi avait clairement gagné. Bientôt il ne resterait plus du miracle de la vie sur notre planète que la monoculture des vaches, cochons, chiens et poules maltraités, quelques autres espèces utiles -ainsi que des humains, d'horribles, de répugnants, d'imbattables humains.

People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever.

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself and she had - her heart.

I believe that our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there's a gain. Sometimes we're so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

Sometimes something is so badly broken you cannot recreate its original shape at all. If you try, you create a deformed, imperfect image of what you've lost; you will always compare what your creation looks like with what it used to look like.

Death. Fire. Snow. Failure.

Our own ways of mourning may be unique, but the human capacity to grieve deeply is something we share with other animals.

When you lose someone who's as close as your own skin, the only place you can find him again is hidden inside your memories.

Children who are permanently separated from their parents face a mourning process that is similar to children's reactions to a parent's death. In fact, the parents, with their connection and resources and care, are permanently lost to children. The literature that describes children's reactions to a loss of the parent through death is quite relevant to the population of later-placed adopted children, or children in the foster care system who have lost attachment figures.

He died on the floor, but he was surrounded by music and by people who loved him,' said the pastor, as he knelt with them to pray. 'Many are the kings. whose death was not as good.

They were so pretty," she said. And then she died.

Of her six kids she'd buried all of her sons, the five young men having succumbed to the streets of Baltimore.

We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of daughter Annie

We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie

Everything that she valued had come to her through change, and through change she would one day lose everything. All except honor.

We have to mourn our dead, but we cannot let them take over our life.

It would take a while for me not to think of the Greek language as the father who walked out on me