Quotes About Loss

But when you are engulfed in loss, how can you detach yourself in the transience of everything? How can I take a theoretically long view of things when every waking moment without Johannes is agony?

Once you've crossed over into that realm of nothingness, your story only really stays in the minds of those closest to you. And when they too vanish...

an exhaustion caused by a loss of meaning, an awareness that the civilisation was 'no longer accumulating' but living off a dwindling cultural capital. If that was the case in the late nineteenth century then how much stronger is the case today, when we live on even smaller portions of that inheritance and breathe even further away from the sources that gave that culture energy.

Having long ago reached the point where the only thing white Britons could do was to remain silent about the change in their country, at some point in recent years it began to appear as though they were expected simply to get on, silently but contentedly, with abolishing themselves, accepting the knocks and accepting the loss of their country: 'Get over it. It's nothing new. You were terrible. Now you are nothing.

Quos deus vult perdere prius dementat,

On the Threshold is beautiful and very touching and a moving tribute to my friend, colleague and mentor Irvin Yalom.

the way we honor the dead is by living well...if we spend our lives never allowing ourselves to be hapy we are wasting what they lost." my hubby & I just this on fb last week & LOVE it!! thankx :)

Its a shame, she had me convinced that she couldve been a dime. I guess I lost another one to the wintertime.

When the lights dont glow the same way that they used to and I finally get a moment to myself, I will realize you were everything Im missing and youll tell me youre in love with someone else.

Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and youll always be the one.

The good ones go if you wait too long.

When a good thing goes bad its not the end of the world, its just the end of the world that you had with one girl.

Just try to understand that sometimes it is better to see a thing destroyed, rather than ruined.

We won the war and Hawkesbury and Addington have lost the peace

people systematically overestimate both the pain they will experience as a consequence of anticipated losses and the joy they will garner from anticipated gains.

Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart,seized this man for the fair form that wastaken from me, and the manner still hurts me.

The correct way to think about an extended warranty is: What's my probability of a total loss? Multiply that by the total cost.

What's the use if you don't abuse, if tomorrow never comes, everything you lose.

That was and still is the great disaster of my life-that lovely, lovely little boy.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

When I'm with you, my world is complete. When I touch you, I understand the meaning of life. When I lost you, I completely shattered. You. Own. Me.

The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one.

I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.