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Quotes About Loss

Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.
~ Sharon Olds
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
~ Homer
But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening.
~ Jean Rhys
There are no words to express how sad and devastated I am. I have lost one of my dearest friends, and the industry has lost a giant.
~ Farrah Fawcett
Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.
~ George Eliot
It is always a sad thing to understand those who once were obscured by the mystery and intangibility of the thoughtlessly loved.
~ Howard Spring
Things I Want to Happen After I die: You're allowed to be sad, but you're not allowed to be too sad. If you're always sad when you think about me, then how can you remember me? —Sam McQueen
~ Sally Nicholls
Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Its hard to take in. One of our most talented singer songwriters has left us. RIP George Michael. Such sad, tragic news. 2016 please end.
~ Mick Hucknall
One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
~ Arthur Wellesley
I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck
~ Charles Simic
The first film I remember seeing was Bambi. It has stayed with me because it was so sad.
~ Julia Gillard
Some sad news, President Bush's lapdog passed away. Gee, I didn't even know Tony Blair was sick?
~ Jay Leno
A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.
~ James Poniewozik
Ever since that night I've been on the road Travelling and trying to forget That awful night I lost all my friends I see their faces yet.
~ Phil Coulter
I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad.
~ Emma Thompson
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
~ Euripides
Everybody wants to collaborate with me. I was going to collaborate with Whitney Houston, but she died. Very sad, man. We were very good friends.
~ Toots Hibbert
How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad.
~ Elvis Presley
I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.
~ Shania Twain
If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?
~ Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival.
~ Faraaz Kazi
I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)
~ Nicole Krauss, Great House