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Quotes About Loss

She had given herself to the world in her entirety and then found nothing was left
~ Angela Carter
The lilies i always associate with him; that are white. And stain you.
~ Angela Carter
My father lost me to the Beast at cards
~ Angela Carter
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~ Angela Carter
for lamentation, and thirty for abstaining from laundered garments and from cutting the hair. The sages say that one should not grieve too much for the dead, and whoever grieves excessively is really grieving for someone else.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
and Bill broke a cheerful silence for the first time to say he wished he hadn't lost his ocarina with his kit, because he had never had a better one.
~ Angela Thirkell
Mrs. Brandon herself, in one of her moods of devastating truthfulness, had explained her own appearance as the result of a long and happy widowhood, and as, after a little sincere grief at the loss of a husband to whom she had become quite accustomed, she had had nothing of consequence to trouble her, it is probable that she was right.
~ Angela Thirkell
Hullo, Rose,' said Delia Brandon, 'you do look gorgeous. I wish I could have a wedding dress like that.' Rose said she thought white satin was a bit dispiriting, but Mummy would have it. 'And anyway,' she said with great simplicity, 'if there was a war or anything and John got killed or something, I could have it dyed black.
~ Angela Thirkell
A veces deseo ser como mamá, que nunca tiene esa sensación de perderse algo, sensación que yo tengo tan a menudo y de forma tan dolorosa.
~ Angelika Schrobsdorff
She's dead!" Marcia gasped. And then, much more dismayed, she cried, "She's dead on my sofa!
~ Angie Sage
Simon's eye has turned to dust," Septimus said. "What?" - Marcia
~ Angie Sage
As desolate as he had felt when his best friend, Boy 409, had fallen overboard in a night raid and they had not been allowed to stop to pick him up.
~ Angie Sage
Dandra Draa killed my father. - Kaznim
~ Angie Sage
That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
~ Anita Brookner
I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.
~ Anita Shreve
Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.
~ Anita Shreve
Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
~ Anita Shreve
Ten Worst Feelings: Cheated on. Over thinking. Lied to. Heart broken. Not cared for. Losing. Scared. Assuming. Nervous. Letting go.
~ Anmol Andore
We don't wanta lose that little baby. Miss Hazel Marie might think she don't want it, but she do. If she lose it, she be worse upset than if she don't. When the Lord send a baby, he send the wantin', too.
~ Ann B. Ross
Who expects small things to survive when even the largest get lost? People forget years and remember moments. Seconds and symbols are left to sum things up.
~ Ann Beattie
I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
~ Ann Brashares
you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
~ Ann Brashares
What's left to lean together with, longing against, when life's outlines get swept away? - Imru'l-Qays
~ Ann Chamberlin
When Fran had died and people had shared their own stories of grieving he'd wanted to hit them, to scream, I don't care if someone close to you died. Don't use my tragedy to wallow in your own. You cannot come close to knowing how I feel.
~ Ann Cleeves