Quotes About Loss

War can't give life, it can only take it away.

I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.

The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life...He played that which he would never play again.

For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.

If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.

And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.

But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.

I spent the last week of Ryan's life in Indiana, Indianapolis, with Jeanne and Andrea, Jeanne, his mother, Andrea, his sister, and some other beautiful people who came. And it taught me a lesson.

My life closed twice before its close

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic.

It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life.

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

What I was interested in [Fruitvale Station ] was one guy and his life and how that related to all of our lives and the fact that it ended unnecessarily and what the fallout from that was.

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

We lose things all the time. We lose ourselves every day. We lose our minds occasionally. But it's just a part of life, loss.

Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.

The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing.

No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.