Quotes About Loss

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.

Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

I used to think about giving my life up for things, but I didn't understand what 'giving your life' really was until it was right there, about to be taken from me

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

We learn to face the reality and the pain of our loss, to say good-bye to the dead loved one, to restore ourselves, and to reinvest in life once again.

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.

Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence.

Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.

I would say my life experience has involved dealing with people very close to me that have died.

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.

There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.

Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better, Philomene said, what is good enough slips away.

I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life

It's very hard to lose someone who's the closest person to you in your life.

Daniel had ruined that couple's life. Killed their daughter. All because he'd been some hotshot angel who saw something he wanted and went after it.

Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.

I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.