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Quotes About Loss

I was for some time quite beside myself and could not believe that Providence could have required the presence of this indispensable man in the other world so soon.
~ Joseph Haydn
If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
~ Suzanne Collins
The first time I lose I drink whiskey, second time I lose I drink gin. Third time I lose I drink anything 'cause I think I'm gonna win.
~ Gram Parsons
There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken.
~ Ne-Yo
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
~ Elie Wiesel
Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
~ Carlos Ghosn
Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.
~ Christopher Pike
a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.
~ Gloria Naylor
Something's died in me," she goes. "It took a long time for it to do it, but it's dead. You've killed something, just like you'd took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.
~ Raymond Carver
I had 3 brothers, 2 died early, and one of them was living a good long time.
~ Edith Wilson
The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live in memories.
~ Christopher Paolini, Eragon
Every time you drink an inferior bottle, it is as if you took a fine bottle and smashed it against a wall. You can't get that bottle back!
~ Len Evans
We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black.
~ Amy Winehouse
Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.
~ Anna May Wong
In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.
~ Stanley Kunitz
I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and to lose the role was definitely tough for me. I was devastated when I lost the role.
~ Sarah Chalke
Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything
~ Sarah Manguso
... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.
~ W. G. Sebald
Sending you sincere condolences and the wish that the passing of time eases your sorrow.
~ Margaret Jones
I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.
~ Reggie Jackson
I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.
~ Emma Donoghue
It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.
~ Grace Paley
I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.
~ Jimmy Carr
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe