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Quotes About Loss

You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.
~ Chet Baker
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
~ Pablo Neruda
I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I've lost.
~ Nan Goldin
When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.
~ Muriel Barbery
It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
~ Bette Davis
Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.
~ Diego Rivera
I wish I never fell so deep in love with you and now it ain't no way we can be friends.
~ Trey Songz
We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I loved. I lost. So I learned to love what is never lost. Then even what I loved that can be lost was through what cannot be lost...so it was never lost.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
~ J. K. Rowling
Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept.
~ Rich Mullins
You moan, "She left me." "He left me," Twenty more will come.
~ Rumi
Just remember you will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn't last
~ Marie Curie
The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.
~ Yasmina Khadra
To place your horse's need for you to let him leave his failing body above your need to keep him with you - that - is the greatest and purest love.
~ Cynthia Garrett
I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.
~ Maeve Binchy
A coward can die many times, but love can only die once.
~ Kim Hyun-joong
I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.
~ Omar Khayyam
I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling.
~ Jennie Finch
Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
~ Ville Valo
When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.
~ Ram Dass
I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I'm so proud the fans still sing my name, but I fear tomorrow they will stop. I fear it because I love it. And everything you love, you fear you will lose.
~ Eric Cantona