Quotes About Loss

The house was an empty tank full of grief. Their empty ghosts floated everywhere they were not.

Money would compensate for lost dreams.

Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.

I was driving with Arrow the other day, and from the back seat she said, 'I wish we moved into that house we were going to move into.' A house we didn't move into because it was my boyfriend's house and we broke up. I said, 'I'm sorry honey. Why do you wish we'd moved in there?' And she said, 'Because if we moved in there, we'd find all the things we thought that we had lost.

Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost It's empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over I see my vision burn, I feel my memories fade with time But I'm too young to worry These's streets we traveled on will undergo our same lost past

How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the pages of the book its burned. Place and time always on my mind. I have so much to say but your so far away.

Now that I've lost you it kills me to say I tried to hold on as you slowly slipped away I'm losing the fight I've treated you so wrong Now let me make it right

You had my heart, at least for the most part cause' everybody's gotta die sometime, we fell apart let's make a new start 'cause everybody's gotta die sometime

Ripped his heart out right before his eyes, eyes over easy

My heart is broken... I'm lying here My thoughts are choking On you my dear...

What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.

If the widows were widows twice or even thrice over, as was the case with many women, the problem of envy took on monstrous dimensions. To be a widow in the Islamic State was to be condemned to a rough, deprived existence in a guest house for widows.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

there is no magic left in England now!

Charles had not lived. So lately dead that the pain was still the pain of separation and not of total absence, his memory lay against her heart.

The therapist had been sympathetic and kind. "You have to decide how you want to spend the rest of your life. Isn't it possible that your hope that Danny is alive and will show up one day at your door is keeping you rooted in a fantasy?

I was in love with a ghost.

This wasn't the Lillie he'd left that night nine years ago. His Lillie was all fire and shooting rockets. His Lillie wasn't like any woman he'd ever known. His Lillie… wasn't his anymore.

A forbidden love that ended badly.

Life in the world functions by ego, attachment and desire, which gives the rise to the idea of "likes" and "dislikes". In this way the mind starts identifying all experiences in the world in terms of opposites, such as pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat.

We are losing our environment so rapidly.

On the rare occasions that men talk to each other about these things, we discover that step-fathering a child whose father has died is very different again from the experience of trying to do it with a child whose father is alive but not on the scene, and that is different from the situation where the biological father is around sometimes.