Quotes About Loss

I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....

She was willing to give you everything she had. And you took it from her. You took her youth, and her beauty, and her energy and her health- For a moment, think of his mother, Gabe couldn't continue speaking. He fell silent and choked back tears. Then he took a deep breath and went on, - and it didn't matter. We found each other. None of it mattered but that. You won't ever know what that's like, to love someone. In a way, I pity you. But I hope you starve.

It's just that...without the memories, it's all meaningless.

That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another.

Although he had through the memories learned about the pain of loss and loneliness, now he gained too, an understanding of solitude and its joy.

Don't grow much more, or you will be taller than I am, little Longlegs! Annemarie smiled, but Peter's comment was no longer the lighthearted fun of the past. It was only a brief grasp at something that had gone.

It's as if the sea sucked away her past and left her empty.

Do you know that I no longer see colors? Jonas's heart broke.

Boy, said Anastasia, you know what I wish? I wish that everybody who loved each other would die at exactly the same time. Then nobody would ever have to miss anyone. Well, said her father slowly, it just doesn't work that way. It just doesn't seem to work that way very often.

JONAS DID NOT want to go back. He didn't want the memories, didn't want the honor, didn't want the wisdom, didn't want the pain. He wanted his childhood again, his scraped knees and ball games.

That had day changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another.

Her name was Rosemary, The Giver said.

This new Caleb was a replacement child. The couple had lost their first Caleb, a cheerful little Four.

Release was not the same as Loss.

Change means leaving things behind, and that's always sad -Gossamer

She had seen the cindered fragments of her childhood life whirl into the sky as well.

Ravaged all, Bogo tabal Timore toron Totoo now gone...

But now Jonas had experienced real sadness. He had felt grief. He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. These were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt. Today, he felt happiness.

Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

Jonas looked at her. She was so lovely. For a fleeting instant he thought he would like nothing better than to ride peacefully along the river path, laughing and talking with his gentle female friend. But he knew such times had been taken from him now.

Her name was Rosemary," The Giver said.

Things will be sacrificed; people will suffer. That is the way life works when we are human.

still clutched Ellen's necklace. She looked down, and saw that she had imprinted

Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us.