Quotes About Loss

Holly died without a friend to hold her hand. Artemis felt her go, another gift of the magic. He kept on counting, brushing away the tears on his cheeks.

She strode across the McGraney boundary without a backward glance, legs cutting twin swatches in the green-black grass. Dawn sunlight simmered on the tip of each blade, and Holly's passage set a surging ripple of light flashing across the meadow. Extraordinary, thought Artemis. What have I lost?

Ich höre mir das nicht länger an. Jede Sekunde, die ich mit dir spreche, ist eine verlorene Sekunde. Da blickte Root ihm direkt in die Augen. Das macht dann, alles in allem, gut sechshundert verlorene Jahre, was, mein Freund ?

Don't say gone, say dead —that's what they are.

Nee,' zei ze, 'ik zal hem niet missen.' Maar haar ogen vertelden een heel ander verhaal.

us, by the way – "they are forever dead to their brothers and sisters." So there was no guarantee that that particular fairy was worth even

Wowbagger could not hold her eyes. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

My truffles?" gasped Opal. "You took them. That's just mean.

evolution had stripped them of this power.

The reason why I lost my lamp was that the thief was superior to me in vigilance. He paid however this price for the lamp, that in exchange for it he consented to become a thief: in exchange for it, to become faithless.

So-and-so's son died.' ('The question'). Answer: 'Since it's nothing he can control, it isn't bad.

Do not say of anything "I have lost it," but rather, "I have given it back.

Nothing can truly be taken from us. There is nothing to lose. Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, I have lost it and instead say, It has been returned to where it came from. [...] The important thing is to take great care with what you have while the world lets you have it.

Loss and sorrow are only possible with respect to things we own.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

Thus, though hatred is a convenient instrument for mobilizing a community for defense, it does not, in the long run, come cheap. We pay for it by losing all or many of the values we have set out to defend.

the most painful good-byes were the ones that were never said, never explained

with attachment comes pain!

The boys were already dead, though, and when the paramedics arrived, they determined that the body temperatures were 107 and 108 degrees.

Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

Captain Barry steered the plane back toward land and ordered the crew to bail out. One of the copilots, Captain Theodore Schreier, mistakenly put on a life jacket over his parachute. He was never seen again. The

one might expect in view of the potentially higher level of competitive loss free revealing would entail.

she died of internal weeping