Quotes About Loss

When this wave comes over me and I feel the hollow in my heart that's been there ever since my mum died. Loss does that to you, hits you out of the blue. You can be in the car or in class or at the movies, laughing and having a good time, and suddenly it's as if someone has reached directly into the wound and squeezed with all their might.

What are you most afraid of?" I say before we jump. I can already feel my skin starting to burn from the sun. "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.

Don't get me wrong – I'd rather be here than dead – but sometimes I feel that everything that, like, makes me up has gone away.

Writing was me. But now writing is one of the things I can't do.

I barely have to say anything, not even, "I'm not ready." It's in the unwritten rulebook of life, under How to React When a Student Loses a Loved One and Is, Nine Months Later, Still Having a Very Hard Time.

Several years ago, a boy I knew and loved killed himself.

I lost my friend to suicide a year before I lost my father to cancer.

And to the boy I loved who died too soon, but who left me a song. And in two weeks we'll fly again, perhaps a Chinese dinner then. You make me happy, you make me smile.

The quote is from Virginia Woolf's suicide note to her husband, but I think it fits the occasion.

Hanya karena mereka sudah mati, mereka tak perlu mati. Begitu juga kita.

I am disappearing maybe I am already gone.

And even though the ache of that heartbreak hurts like hell, it's so much better than feeling nothing.

What would I have said to him if I'd know I would never see him again?

the words are there one minute, and the next they're gone.

I imagine his little bones in his little grave, and it is the saddest thought in the world.

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 either. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you awake or keep you from sleeping. That's all on me too. But man, I like this girl.

Just like all of us. The Nest Houses have reached their life expectancy. I think of the mud nest we made for the cardinal, all those years ago, and wonder if it's still there. I imagine his little bones in his little grave, and it is the saddest thought in the world.

You can't stop people from dying. You can't stop them from going away. You can't stop yourself from going away either. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you awake or keep you from sleeping. That's all on me too. But man, I like this girl.

and so the preacher talks about the tragedy of someone dying so young, of a life ended too soon, of possibilities never realized.

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. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you awake or keep you from sleeping. That's all on me too. But man, I like this girl.

Yang penting bukan apa yang kauambil, melainkan apa yang kautinggalkan.

I can never bring him back, and it might have been my fault. 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.

Now she's gone and not just for a few days but forever. How can something so final happen in an instant? No preparation. No warning. No chance to do all the things you planned to do. No chance to say goodbye.

Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.