Quotes About Loss

We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.

Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away.

To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.

I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.

My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.

Given the loss of a child or the birth of a child or anything like that, I think it's just I'm more moved by life, the older I get, so it's easier to connect to the characters that I play.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?

The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.

I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.

Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.

[On her mother, who died when Hutton was 4:] I hardly remember her, but I have missed her all my life.

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.

And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.

My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.

All my life I've always been so blue, born to lose, and now I'm losing you.

Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.