Quotes About Loss

I have been loved," she said, "by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

For a lover who dies, no matter how forgotten, will take somewhat of you to the grave.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones

The Seventh and Eighth symphonies are my requiem.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones. Too many of our people died and were buried in places unknown to anyone, not even their relatives. It happened to many of my friends. Where do you put the tombstones for Meyerhold or Tukhachevsky? Only music can do that for them. Looking back, I see nothing but ruins, only mountains of corpses... I'm not exaggerating, I mean mountains... I'm sad, I'm grieving all the time.

Shvataš li šta je to po?i u rat? Ako se i vratim, ne?u biti onaj koji je otišao. Ja se, Natalija, ne bojim smrti, bojim se rata. Užasno se bojim rata.

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

I felt a subtle sense of disappointment as I left the morgue.

Even if he was supposed to be the one, he didn't end up being the one.

daughter's death had loosed something in Sara, a savage kind of grief that burned onto the canvas.

Nothing in the world is more sinister than a child's coffin.

What other half-buried things did I know about my own grief and wife that, if asked about directly, I could surrender? That for several years I kept Clare's mobile phone active because I didn't want anyone else to take her phone number. That during the time before I released the number, I sent her texts from work, only to come home and read them on the phone that was always charging by her side of the bed.

The water was running in the sink. I don't like to hear water running. I get the feeling that time is passing, that the globe's resources are being used up. I get the feeling I'm losing something.

Colgó, miró hacia el jardín, vio contra el muro los brotecitos verdes, duros como tomates jóvenes, y mientras miraba por la ventana, delante de las camelias al borde de la floración, se apoderó de ella una pena espantosa, una pena que le impedía moverse, que atravesaba el tiempo, que venía, le pareció, de muy lejos, de las horas vacías de la niñez, de una espera que nunca había cesado. Le cortó el aliento hasta tal punto que no podía respirar.

When you lose you lose forever, an when you win it only lasts a second or two.

Time was a dry wind brushing away his youth and his strength.

There are a lot of things that manage to get broken in a life, most of them never to be put back together again.

You're not going to be able to save her, you know. If you keep trying, she'll break your heart.

You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.

While you spoke, it reached into the room switching off the mirrors in their frames and undeveloping your photographs; it gently drew a knife across the threads that tied your keepsakes to the things they kept

Sometimes things we take for granted every day can be taken from us permanently and suddenly, we're changed forever.

Enneagram 9s Basic Fear: Of loss and separation Basic Desire: To have inner stability "peace of mind

Se fosse davvero oro, tutto questo finirebbe! Sarei più ricco, ma non sarei mai più lo stesso! L'aria fresca avrà un profumo migliore? I giorni di Sole saranno più luminosi? Le notte stellate nasconderanno altri segreti? O perderò tutto questo? Ma io davvero voglio essere... ricco? (Capitolo VIII)

Americans take their strength in victories, Mexicans' strength is in their ability to suffer loss.