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Quotes About Loss

I guess, the hardest obstacles I've had to overcome in my life are deaths of people close to me.
~ Guy Burnet
I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on.
~ James Patterson
The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.
~ Janet Fitch
Right before my eyes, I could see my life going away from me and there was nothing I could do.
~ Jennifer Niven
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
~ Jessica Lange
My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.
~ Joan Chen
It is infamy to die, and not be missed.
~ Carlos Wilcox
Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.
~ Christina Rossetti
I loved him, but I also realized how calm my life was without him.
~ Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.
~ Cynthia Lord
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
~ Dan Quayle
For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.
~ Daniel Handler
What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.
~ Delmore Schwartz
Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.
~ Ellen Goodman
Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.
~ Ellen Hopkins
I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.
~ Fay Weldon
What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
~ Frederick Buechner
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
~ Albert Camus
Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
~ Alexander Pope