Quotes About Loss

Nessuna perdita viene avvertita più profondamente della perdita di ciò che sarebbe potuto essere. Nessuna nostalgia fa male quanto la nostalgia per le cose che non sono mai esistite.

You've been gone for decades, you hid deep in my lakes, why now, why infect my dreams now? What flood is this?

She felt the intimate loss of who was meant to become.

What is life if not a habitation to loss?

Nicio pierdere nu se simte mai acut decat pierderea a ceea ce ar fi putut sa fie. Nicio nostalgie nu doare la fel de mult ca nostalgia dupa lucrurile care n-au existat niciodata.

Every Beiruti of a certain age has learned that on leaving for a walk you should never be too sure of returning home, not only because something might happen to you personally, but also because your home might cease to exist.

Le melodie ascoltate sono dolci, ma più dolci ancora sono quelle inascoltate, scrisse Keats. Nessuna perdita viene avvertita più profondamente della perdita di ciò che sarebbe potuto essere. Nessuna nostalgia fa male quanto la nostalgia per le cose che non sono mai esistite.

The corpse looks to me like a suit left behind.

You looked inhuman when you were dying, Doc, your eyes glistened like dimming stars, you were wasting away and life was leaving you piecemeal, your soul no longer fit your body, you hated it and I hated it and I couldn't recognize you and I couldn't see you and I was frightened and I never knew what to do, I looked for the man I love in you and I searched for who I used to be around you and I couldn't find either.

I have lost my dewdrop", cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars

If my heart is breaking—let it break! That will not make the world bankrupt—nor even me; for man is so much greater than the things he loses in this life. The very ocean of tears has its other shore, else none would have ever wept.

Why did the flower fade? I pressed it to my heart with anxious love, that is why the flower faded.

Cuando mi voz calle con la muerte, mi corazón te seguirá hablando".

Perfect gain is the best of all; but if that is impossible, then the next best gain is perfect losing.

Open your door to that which must go, for the loss becomes unseemly when obstructed.

Life has become richer by the love that has been lost.

Even he whose near ones have all died, one by one, is not alone-companionship comes for him from behind the screen of death.

Rajalakshmi would send for Bihari and express her grief. Bihari would tell her, 'Ma, when the worm weaves a cocoon there is not much to fear, but when it breaks out and flies away, it is hard to make it return. Who would have thought he would break free of his bond with you in such a manner?

At last, when no one else came, Mother Sleep soothed with her soft caresses the wounded heart of the motherless lad. Nilkanta

If my heart is breaking – let it break! That will not make the world bankrupt – nor even me; for man is so much greater than what he loses in this life.

What I mean, King, is this. We are the true Renouncers, because change is our very secret. We lose, in order to find. We have no faith in the never-changing. What do you mean? Haven't you noticed the detachment of the rushing river, as it runs splashing from its mountain cave? It gives itself away so swiftly, and only thus it finds itself. What is never changing, for the river, is the desert sand, where it loses its course.

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

Si lloras por haber perdido el sol, las lágrimas no te dejarán ver las estrellas.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.