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Quotes About Loss

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.
~ Marie Lu, Champion
Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
~ Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
~ Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife
The dead do not harm us, only the alive.
~ Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby
She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.
~ Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
~ Dan Simmons
In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.
~ Gael Greene
The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.
~ Heywood Hale Broun
Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.
~ Jim Butcher
I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.
~ Lauren Oliver
I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
~ Madeleine Albright
All the bloomy flush of life is fled.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
I Will Follow is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
~ Salli Richardson
All I can say is, death is a part of life.
~ Simon Kinberg
People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.
~ Thomas Jane
When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.
~ William Boyd
He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.
~ William Goldman
Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
~ William Shakespeare
Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.
~ William Shakespeare
I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life.
~ Willie Aames
Why is it that for everything you gain in life, something is always lost?
~ Zoey Dean
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
~ A. E. Housman