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Quotes About Loss

As metal rang on metal, some inner part of Jem, some part that had been lost without his even knowing it was lost, felt the pleasure of fighting together with Will one last time.
~ Cassandra Clare
Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!
~ Charles Dickens
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.
~ Charles Frazier
Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original tunes that I have heard in a long time.
~ Christopher Anderson
There is no time for grief; there never is.
~ Christopher Pike
I have lost everything, Han thought. Then he corrected himself. Every time I think I've lost everything, I find there's still something else to lose.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it.
~ Dan Chaon
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.
~ Daniel Handler
It's two days until tax time. I know it's late, but there is still time to deduct this show as a loss.
~ David Letterman
You made me lose my appetite, Boomer." "My mom tells me that all the time. Your family must be just like mine!
~ David Levithan
That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.
~ Dolly Parton
Time erases both the best and the worst of us.
~ Douglas Coupland
only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.
~ Anne Lamott
By losing present time, we lose all time.
~ William Gurney Benham
But the loss of any friend takes a long time to heal.
~ Autumn De Wilde
They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.
~ Don Gibson
This relates to the concept of time and our ability as dreamers to reach across time to a past or future self and do some good. This is very important as it relates to soul loss and soul recovery.
~ Robert Moss
How could she go on without him? And, at the same time, how could she go on knowing that every moment of their time together had meant so little to him
~ Sarah MacLean
Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.
~ Rob Sheffield
I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
~ Robert Frost
I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.
~ Rufus Wainwright
One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
~ Sam Taylor-Wood
We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.
~ Samuel Beckett
Then I'd crawl back into bed, smelling her all around me, and tell myself that next time, I would lock that window. But I never did.
~ Sarah Dessen