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Quotes About Loss

She had worried she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn't broken. She had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.
~ Sarah Rees Brennan, Untold
I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.
~ Walter Inglis Anderson
If my heart is broken, I should be thankful that I was blessed to have loved but I cannot live that wisely. That's why I cry.
~ Nii Parkes
Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
~ Barbara Boxer
The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.
~ Tim McCarver
Now that you're gone, it hit us, super hard on Thanksgiving and Chrismas, this can't be right, yo you heard the track I did called this can't be life
~ Kanye West
God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.
~ Thomas Watson
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.
~ Laurence Binyon
Grief's darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving.
~ Billy Graham
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.
~ Harvey Mackay
Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.
~ Raphael
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I'm not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.
~ Sage Francis
Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time. It's sad, but it's life.
~ Cecelia Ahern
That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.
~ Bill Bryson
Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
~ Alex Haley
time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time.
~ Gosho Aoyama
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
~ Michelangelo
I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.
~ Xavier Dolan
My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.
~ Richard Brautigan
August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.
~ Sylvia Plath
Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.
~ Margaret Fuller