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Quotes About Loss

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.
~ Brian Andreas
I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.
~ John Green
We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation.
~ Laura Bohannan
There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.
~ Lorenzo Snow
Better lose your life than your soul.
~ Louisa May Alcott
No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
~ Marcus Aurelius
You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.
~ Marya Hornbacher
When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life.
~ Gillian Anderson
One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action.
~ Mike Pence
I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, and I've had to live that as though it's real. And it can take a really big emotional toll on someone.
~ Nina Dobrev
Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.
~ Penelope Gilliatt
I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.
~ William C. Bryant
You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.
~ William Shakespeare
Nothing gold can stay.
~ Robert Frost
Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch.
~ Ruta Sepetys
The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep..?s the struggle of l?fe.
~ Shahrukh Khan
When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.
~ Suzanne Curchod
The light has gone out of my life.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.
~ Virginia Woolf
It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.
~ Lev Grossman, The Magicians