Quotes About Loss

That's something like the sensation of losing someone. You are never in your life so alive, and so aware of being alive, yet so isolated and abandoned, as when a loved one is taken from you. The planet will move right through you like wind through stalks of grass.

To speak somewhat frankly, every boy I've known as well as killed has struck me as his corpse's baby picture.

When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love.

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.

This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

She had a sense of longing and loss that she had never had before. It was as if her family history had been erased and they'd been left unmemorable.She imagined that Rachel's family must have similar feelings, but she did not try to share these thoughts with Rachel.

She couldn't put into words how desparately she wanted to know what had happened to Sarah. But she'd suddenly realized that Sarah was not the only one who had lost her memory of what happened when she was a little girl. Hundreds of thousands of people had lost their memories of what had happened to them ...

It's as if I died too,' she whispered to herself, 'as if I was born dead.' Ironically, it was true. Emotionally she knew what her mind did not, beyond logic, beyond reason, as if somehow deep inside she felt what Sarah knew.

Some special people enter into your world, leave their footprints on your hearts, and then exit without a warning. And your world is never the same again.

We remember the moments of fear, loss and humiliation most vividly.

How did my friends cross the cobalt river, with what did they pay the ferryman? As they set out for the indigo shore under this jet-black sky - some died on their feet with a backward glance.

Valkyrie, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your friend is most likely dead." "Of course he's dead. He's a skeleton.

What is it with you women?" he yelled, kicking at the air. "You come into our lives, you take everythin'! Throughout the years you got little pieces of me, of my very SOUL, and NOW? Now you got my damn straight razor! How am I supposed to kill people? How am I supposed to even SHAVE?

I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.

I'm sorry, I'm still stuck on you losing your head." "I didn't lose it. It was stolen.

He hesitated. 'Serpine used my wife and child as a weapon against me. In order to do so, he had to kill them. He took my family's death and he made it about me. Valkyrie, when you die, it will be your death and yours alone. Let it come to you on your own terms.' She nodded. 'Valkyrie Cain,' he said, 'it has been an absolute pleasure knowing you.

My wife was saying to me just the other day how she's noticed a spring in my step lately. That was because I thought you were gone forever.' 'I missed you too, Thurid.

You promise?" "I cross the place where my heart used to be and wish to be even more deader than I am now.

Did you know he once lost a shopping centre? – Stephanie's mum about her dad.

This necklace has cost two very fine men their lives. At times I wear it in tribute to their sacrifice. Other times, I wear it because it goes with this skirt, - China Sorrows