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Quotes About Loss

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
~ Martha Beck
Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
~ Fannie Flagg
The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.
~ Sergio Aragones
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
~ Shania Twain
I buried Little Ann by the side of Old Dan. I knew that was where she wanted to be. I also buried a part of my life along with my dog.
~ Wilson Rawls
I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
~ Luis Bunuel
I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life.
~ Edward Higgins White
Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear?
~ J. K. Rowling
Life is about loosing, everything, gracefully
~ Mia Farrow
When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.
~ Paulo Coelho
You will lose what you value most... It hadn't been me that Rhonda was talking about. It hadn't even been Dimitri's life. What you value most. It had been his soul.
~ Richelle Mead
I take a good long look at her. I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can't stop people from dying. You can't stop them from going away. You can't stop yourself from going away either.
~ Jennifer Niven
What are you most afraid of?" "Dying. Losing my parents. Staying here for the rest of my life. Never figuring out what I'm supposed to do. Being ordinary. Losing everyone I love.
~ Jennifer Niven
I am disappearing. Maybe I'm already gone.
~ Jennifer Niven
I hate you. If only I'd known. If only I'd been enough. I let you down. I wish I could have done something. I should have done something. Was it my fault? Why wasn't I enough? Come back. I love you. I'm sorry.
~ Jennifer Niven
I want her to say my name because then I'll know it's okay and I haven't just lost her forever. But she doesn't, and I can feel a cold, dark feeling growing in the pit of my stomach—every bit as cold and dark as the water
~ Jennifer Niven
I didn't know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, and in such a final way. So I guess there was no Great Manifesto after all, even though you made me believe there was.
~ Jennifer Niven
So it's good and it's bad and it hurts, but I like thinking about him. If I think about him, he won't be completely gone either. Just because they're dead, they don't have to be. And neither do we.
~ Jennifer Niven
Right before my eyes, I could see my life going away from me and there was nothing I could do.
~ Jennifer Niven
I'm afraid they have been eat up by the elements.' Just like all of us.
~ Jennifer Niven
Conozco lo suficiente bien la vida como para saber que no puedes contar con que las cosas permanezcan intactas e inmóviles, por mucho que te gustaría que así fuera. No puedes evitar que la gente muera. No puedes evitar que se marchen. Ni si quiera uno mismo puede evitar marcharse. Me conozco lo suficientemente bien como para saber que nadie puede mantenerme despierto o impedirme dormir. Eso también lo llevo dentro. Pero tía, esta chica me gusta.
~ Jennifer Niven
Suddenly I'm having one of those moments that you have after losing someone—when you feel as if you've been kicked in the stomach and all your breath is gone, and you might never get it back.
~ Jennifer Niven
Denn es geht nicht um das, was man mitnimmt, sondern um das, was man zurücklässt. (Violet)
~ Jennifer Niven