Quotes About Loss

Babbitt knew that in this place of death Paul was already dead. And as he pondered on the train home something in his own self seemed to have died: a loyal and vigorous faith in the goodness of the world, a fear of public disfavor, a pride in success.

and after saying good-by to him at the station, Babbitt returned to his office to realize that he faced a world which, without Paul, was meaningless.

There was nothing to say to tragedy that had outlived hope.

Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

We reach. We gasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or a worse than a shadow - misery.

We lose more women to marriage than war, famine, and disease.

What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.

Mothers) They lose their children's love. Reunited, they end up in conflict homes. Too often, the boys seek out gangs to try to find the love they thought they would find with their mothers. Too often, the girls get pregnant and form their own families. In many ways, these separations are devastating Latino families. People are losing what they value the most.

I stare into his eyes, I shake my head, sorry for the chance we lost. The chance we maybe never had. But not for saving him. I would do that again, no matter the cost.

I will never see him again. Never know why he let me go. Never learn if he really whispered what I think he did. Beautiful.

Don't think about it. Don't think about what could have been. It's too unbearable.

And then Jo met Professor Bhaer, so we had to watch that bit. And then Beth died. So I guess the March sisters were on their own jagged graph too.

Suddenly I can't bear being near him anymore. I can't bear seeing his generous, brave face, his woodland eyes, his everything... and knowing that they can't be mine.

I've lost it. The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. To say this is a special ring is an understatement.

My friend lost his mother when we were at college. I spent a lot of nights talking with him. Lot of nights. He pauses. I know what it's like. You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a grown-up. And it never goes away

Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer;

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

What do I care for life when you are dead?

Another husband could be found and with That husband another son. But I have no mother now. I have no father. I cannot bring another brother to the world.

There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird, When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone. - Sentry

ISMENE: How can I live alone, without her? CREON: Her? Don't even mention her-- she no longer exists. ISMENE: What? You'd kill your own son's bride? CREON: Absolutely: there are other fields for him to plow.

Orestes beloved. as you die you destroy me. You have torn away the part of my mind where hope was .

All my love gone for nothing. Days of my love, years of my love.