Quotes About Loss

There is no satisfaction in eternity,' she said. 'There is only loss.

But after he tells you how they died, I want you to remember how they lived(...)

Ezra blew into Sarah's mouth frantically, knowing it was hopeless, but unwilling to admit it to himself. If he stopped breathing for her, he would have to begin life without her

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

How much of what passes for grief in the world is really nothing more than regret?

eventually, everything goes away.

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...

It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.

One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.

Just as it takes death to awaken us to the full stature of someone loved

She had no beauty to commend her apart from the sweetness of her smile and the kindliness of her round brown eyes, but she carried with her wherever she went that aura of almost heavenly motherliness which so often shines about a woman who has borne only one child, and in losing it has become mother to all the world, shining more wonderfully than about the mother of a dozen.

In old age, she thought, how it all falls away. Your good opinion of yourself, all the virtues you had thought you had, your beauty, your wealth.

She had known then that there were things one was more afraid of being without with ease than possessing with pain.

And so on that stormy autumn evening Sophie Le Patourel took the lives of William and Marianne and Marguerite and knotted them together forever.

It was usual for Gervas Leigh to lose everything not actually attached to his person by a string, the habit of dissociation from material things being the first to be acquired by men of saintly character.

Christmas was gone. Brendan didn't even hate it, because how could you hate something that was dead?

While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.

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

You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

You run over a part of yourself when you run over something that has such a place in your heart.

She can't quite bring herself to say more than that. And even when Jim had been alive and well, despite being happy and settled and everything else that came with a twenty-year marriage, it had been Aiden she'd thought about before falling asleep, Aiden she'd fantasised about when the mood took her.

I wasn't worried, but I thought I should know something that didn't seem to be there anymore. It was gone, whatever it was, fleeting and slippery like a fish darting through silky weeds. From

Don't tell me I didn't love him, don't...just don't act like you know what it feels like to lose someone who left without a goodbye. Someone who you spent your days praying to make him smile and then he just leaves, he leaves without a goodbye...

Your eyes told me to trust you, your heart's beat told me you were afraid of getting broken too, the only thing you didn't tell me was how to let go once you were gone...