Quotes About Loss

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go.

The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.

Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

The idea of giving someone something that I got, that makes me feel sad.

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.

I hear a thunder in the distance; see a vision of the cross. I feel the pain that was given on a sad day of loss. Only He holds the key: a light to free me from my burden and grant me life eternally.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

Sometimes your eyes are not the only place the tears fall from.

See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!

It's quite sad to see how many people I've known over that years that just die off, you know like wilted flowers. Well, there's something to be said for flowers in the dustbin.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?

You can't be gone. I need you here, with me. What am I going to do without you?

If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.

Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

It's sad when you see somebody that talented that passes away and doesn't have to.