Quotes About Loss

Whatever you most fear- abandonment, rejection, failure, loss, humiliation, has already occurred to you. The threats you perceive around you now, or coming at you in the future are the long shadow being cast by your past.

God, Alex loved me. He truly did. I just hadn't learned that time is elastic: it stretches and gives, far more graciously than it probably should, and then one day, when you least expect it, something simply ruptures, and you sheltered life is done.

Yeah, I have a burning issue all right, Dr Weinburger. I wish someone would tell me why it is, with Allie gone and the father count reduced by one, that I can't be Daddy to my little girl anymore.

What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his soul?

History will be erased in the universal purgatory.

There are no winners in real games.

When all is lost, there is still a memory.

knowing (in her gone-ness that will always be part of me) that she would wish me to go ahead and find out what this is. I believe our hearts will tell us how to do this. P

People passed, spoke and waved with no idea that innocence had sloughed from my body and lay in a heap at my feet.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.

With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.

I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Of course Devanney was still in his chamber. It wasn't yet noon and his cousin hadn't had the pleasure of being caressed awake just after dawn. Remembering this morning brought with it another reminder, one of how much it would hurt to lose Cassie, and how much more it would hurt if he somehow lost her to Bucksden's violence.

El país siempre pierde. Los mexicanos siempre se tiran al vacío desde el Castillo de Chapultepec y no logran salir de allí. Por ello es mejor callar. Es mejor ignorar. Es mejor emigrar.

And then he was gone. Gone in so many ways. Not just lost in the moment, but lost in Abigail. She'd come into his home and found her way into his boarded-up heart. She'd pulled off the sheets, dusted the corridors, and let the sun in again. It felt good. He felt alive. She made him feel alive.

As afraid as she was of loving and losing, she was even more afraid of losing the chance to love him. Maybe

Jade's heart had already been shattered into a thousand pieces, and there was no putting it back together. Even if there were, Jade wasn't interested. Loving Aaron had been like magic, but losing him had been a kind of hell she never wanted to experience again.

All this time he'd thought it was her feelings for Stephen that kept Meridith at arm's length. But Stephen was gone, and still she held back. He'd seen the look in her eyes. She'd been putty in his hands when he'd touched her. And then a wall had come up, shutting him out. What gave? And equally as baffling, how had Meridith, in two and a half months, gone from adversary to keeper of his heart?

World War II left no life untouched. An estimated 16 million American men had gone off to fight. More than 400,000 lost their lives. Military and civilian deaths worldwide were estimated to be as high as 80 million.

gold for those lives lost,

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

Why's it called the Battlefield Rest?" "You don't know this area?" "No." "Mary Queen of Scots fought her last battle here. Against her son's army. She lost.