Quotes About Loss

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

The sun in my life, it is gone, it is gone

Just as you commit to this life when it commits to leaving you.

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?

It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.

That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief.

I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.

Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.

Oh, there at last, life's trials past, / We'll meet our loved ones more, / Whose feet have trod the path to God, -- / Not lost, but gone before.

They shall have stars at elbow and foot; Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

After the first death, there is no other.

Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon. She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow. Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face?

Teach me the love that is evergreen after the fall leaved/Grave

And the whole pain flows open and I die.

She has forgotten dying.

though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

We usually appreciate only half the cycle of impermanence. We can accept birth but not death, gain but not loss, or the end of exams but not the beginning. True liberation comes from appreciating the whole cycle and not grasping onto those things we find agreeable.

The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed.

Houses have their own ways of dying, falling as variously as the generations of men, some with a tragic roar, some quietly, but to an afterlife in the city of ghosts, while from others, and thus was the death of Wickham Place, the spirit slips before the body perishes.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.