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Quotes About Loss

Aiden was gone. Like Caleb, but in a different way. I'd lost both of them.
~ Jennifer L. Armentrout, Pure
Death is the saddest part of life.
~ deAnna Lea
Im here and he's not. That I'm alive and he's…
~ Beth Revis, Shades of Earth
When a friend leaves you, you move on. When a best friend leaves you, part of you is gone
~ Misti Hemlock
When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.
~ L.J. Smith
First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.
~ Alyssa Milano
Life is pain and everyone dies, but true love lives forever.
~ J.T. Geissinger
Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
~ Russell Baker
In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.
~ Alfred Romer
Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.
~ Mark Plotkin
We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.
~ Beth Harbison
What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine.
~ Gregory Maguire
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.
~ Gertrude B. Elion
Time is a thief. A killer. Time is killing him.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
From what I can see of humans, you often destroy wonderful things in the pursuit of something that your delusions make you think is more wonderful.
~ A.L. Davroe, Nexis
We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things." – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)
~ Ray Bradbury
All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.
~ S. L. Viehl
I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.
~ Octavia E. Butler, Kindred
I would cry if I could, but instead I just feel my heart rip apart.
~ Siobhan Davis, True Calling
There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned.
~ Nizar Qabbani
We all lose someone at some point in our lives, But don't ever let go of that smile. Hold on forever, Because that's our final dedication.
~ Danny Worsnop
Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won't make it home, I'm already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.
~ Lauren Oliver
My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son.
~ Gabriela Mistral
Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.
~ Khalil Gibran