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Quotes About Loss

At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.
~ Reba McEntire
Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.
~ Robin Sharma
One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.
~ Storm Jameson
It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
~ Vince Gill
Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.
~ Walt Whitman
The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground.
~ Wilfred Owen
Perhaps the most dehumanizing thing in Gaza is people there don't have the time to properly mourn the dead before strikes kill even more
~ Yousef Munayyer
The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.
~ Ellen Key
How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?
~ Eugenie de Guerin
Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.
~ Frederick Lenz
At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in broken accents in the air, Are dying to an echo.
~ George D. Prentice
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
~ Horace
Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.
~ James Hillman
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
~ John Milton
Time, the greatest thief of all.
~ Ally Carter
Every time an idiot dies, your IQ goes down.
~ Bill Ballance
I am so grateful to God for giving me the gift of 48 years with my daughter. And I accept that He knew when it was time to take her.
~ Cissy Houston
Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.
~ Cynthia Asquith
By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far.
~ Jacob Braude
The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust.
~ James Kenneth Stephen
I can't face losin' ya, Riley. Yer all I got left in this world." That brutal honesty again. He'd peeled away more armor, and this time he'd exposed his heart.
~ Jana Oliver
I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
~ Kate Burton