Quotes About Loss

Of course, children were endless work. They came when you didn't want them and had needs you didn't always want to meet. Worst of all they died no matter how much you loved them. The death of her own had frozen the hope inside her harder than the wintery ground. Her hopes had frozen hard and she vowed to keep it that way, and yet she hadn't. The hopes thawed.

Still, he was a salaried man. Even though Katie, who had been a good wife, was dead, he was not his own master.

It was an odd thing, but true, that the death of an enemy could affect you as much almost as much as the death of a friend.

I could hear them whispering how Granddad had gone to a better place. They could think so and go to hell; I didn't believe it. Not unless dirt is a better place than air.

I get to expecting to hear him talk and he ain't here. My ears sort of get empty.

It was a great annoyance to Billy that because of a long shit and a short nap he had lost his horse. But that was the truth of it and there was nothing he could do but limp along.

But yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

Son, this is a sad thing," Augustus said. "Loss of life always is. But the life is lost for good. Don't you go attempting vengeance.

They were just men, and they left money, not memories.

A four-year-old has so little past, and he remembers almost none of it, neither the father he once had nor the house where he once lived. But he can feel the absences – and feel them as sensation, like a texture that was once at his fingers every day but now is gone and no matter how he gropes or reaches his hand he cannot touch what's no longer there.

När hösten kommer blir landskapet så stilla att det nästan dånar av stillhet. Och sådana höstdagar kan man höra en och annan ensam fågel skrika i stillheten som om den ropade av sorg över något förlorat.

maybe just once in this life someone loves us for the us we don't even know how to be yet. And if we lose him too early--in the name of all the promises in the world: a new job, a new city, an old love offering us happily ever after--we may just lose that chance to be our best self.

That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet.

Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won't be.

It leaves you in the same strange place, trying to figure out how to navigate the world without the most important person watching.

But I'm left sitting here, without him, anyway. Doesn't that make me as ridiculous as my mother is? Doesn't it make me the same as her? Both of us putting our faith in someone else above everything else—calling it love. What good is love, if this is where it leads you?

I'll have my first still moment to think about myself. To think about what I've lost, what I'll never have back. To think only of myself. And of Owen, of what I've lost- what I'm still losing- without him.

When the world goes quiet again, it will take everything I am not to allow the grief of his loss to level me.

I was suddenly and completely inundated by it. What had been lost in losing him.

This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn't with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again.

I'd remember Matt, and I'd remember him wrong. And that was probably when I'd miss him most.

In the dream he was taking off his wedding ring. Look, Hannah, he said. Now you've lost me too.

Maybe freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." She tilted her head. "Did you really just quote Janis Joplin?

Part of it is that I recognize in her that thing that happens when you lose your mother. My mother left by choice, Bailey's by tragedy, but it leaves a similar imprint on you either way. It leaves you in the same strange place, trying to figure out how to navigate the world without the most important person watching.