Quotes About Loss

In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.

I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life).

No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.

I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until it became a part of who I am.

Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory

Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years.

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

I'm in mourning for my life.

In life there is not time to grieve long.

Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death.

How did her life live itself without her.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

Like flowers in a storm, life is full of goodbyes