Quotes About Loss

Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It's contrast.

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a much greater sense of the value of life and of what life can be.

Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents die, and the other time is when you are very old.

Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

I was trying to put myself in the situation of someone that was going through major loss. Losing someone to death or sickness, and having to go through life on your own afterwords.

Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life.

Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!

Life is about losing everything, gracefully.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II

It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.

I've aged. 'Patagonia' has robbed me of a decade of my life.