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Quotes About Loss

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.
~ Amartya Sen
May be she'll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.
~ Stephen King
Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.
~ Henry Scott Holland
What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.
~ Josephine Baker
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
~ Virginia Woolf
Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.
~ Jim Broadbent
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
~ Stephen King, The Green Mile
Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.
~ Myriam Miedzian
But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.
~ Natalia Ginzburg
History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.
~ Robert Lowell
There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.
~ Chris Murphy
Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.
~ Roger Angell
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
~ Steve Jobs
It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
~ Waylon Jennings
How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life.
~ James Kirk
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
~ Anne Roiphe
At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.
~ Charles Yu
Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.
~ Carl Jung
A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.
~ Sigmund Freud
Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.
~ Tom Rachman
At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
~ Watchman Nee
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
~ Robert Frost