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Quotes About Loss

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.
~ Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.
~ Jo Nesbo
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
~ Boris Pasternak
And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.
~ Melina Marchetta
Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
~ Adam Zagajewski
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
~ Charles Bukowski
The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.
~ Erin Hunter
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
~ Anderson Cooper
After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
~ Morrie Schwartz
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.
~ Peggy Orenstein
There is nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home. When you've lost it all, that's when you finally realize that life is beautiful.
~ Nikki Sixx
Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.
~ Daphne du Maurier
I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.
~ Robert Wagner
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.
~ Edmund Burke
I did not die, and yet I lost life's breath
~ Dante Alighieri
If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.
~ Valentino Rossi
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
~ Charles Baudelaire
To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
~ Desmond Tutu
Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.
~ Robin Roberts
Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.
~ Trent Reznor