Quotes About Loss

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

I want to teach parents how they can help their kids with death, grief, and losing things, the journey of life.

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away.

Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people who loved them, all they hoped to be and could give back to the world.

I think that's probably the most devastating thing - when someone who is larger than life winds up a shadow of themselves in a hospital bed.

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.

As I celebrate life, I can't help but think how young my mom was when she died of a heart attack at 53. My mom didn't get to meet her grandchildren, but I'm determined to watch mine grow up.

Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.

People come and go, some stay for a while some leave soon. But when they go they take away the memories, promises, dreams and a part of my life.

If the greatest loss of his life is the loss of a dream he's always known to be a dream, then he's among the fortunate ones.

Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of our desperation and wishful thinking?

Dead people are just great. Meet me when you are.

The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue.

The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.

Because one dead leaves every material back, even the body, but what is taken is the soul with memories.

Every growth on this planet is at the cost of loss to some one. No one can deny it or proove it wrong.

Perhaps it's impolite to die so flippantly, after all she's done for me.

I wish I had lost an arm or a leg. It would have been much easier than losing a part of my heart, which lives on, but now beats to a different rhythm.