Quotes About Loss

All my life precious people had come and gone and I was learning not to cling to anyone anymore. p273

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

Because he finally knew what it felt like to hold sunshine in his hands...and when Lori left, it was going to feel like winter all year round, even on the hottest days of summer.

Maya didn't have much more distance in her. Still, she ran. Praying. She knew she should be praying for a church so that she could fall down on her knees and find some solace. But she didn't want to believe in a God who could take away a barely grown boy just trying to do some good.

What have we got to lose?" I said. Nightingale looked up and gave me a strange, sad smile. "Oh, everything, Peter," he said. "But then, such is life.

Some knights never name their horses. That way, when they die in battle, the grief is not so hard to bear. There are always more horses to be had, but it's hard to lose a faithful friend.

This is how it happens: you can't imagine a person being out of your life until you can't imagine how she ever could have been in your life in the first place.

Even harder was describing his sense that Shroom's death might have ruined him for anything else, because when he died? when I felt his soul pass through me? I loved him so much right then, I don't think I can ever have that kind of love for anybody again. So what was the point of getting married, having kids, raising a family if you knew you couldn't give them your very best love?

They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that's taken my tomorrow, and turned them into yesterday.

I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.

Because those moments had been enabled by a future that had never arrived, they could not be remembered from this future that, at and as the present, had obtained; they'd faded from the photograph.

And I felt as if it were true: as if she were dying and not dead, or as if the train could take me back in time.

We shared a daughter? I'd not thought about it that way before. If we shared a daughter, and something happened to Claire, then I would not have to hare Esther with her anymore. I would have Esther to myself.

You killed my man, I thought. He died alone. You should die by thunder. You should be killed in a loud sky. Let your house break in half and the people inside it be pulled into the sky. Let you faint at night.

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? How about this: I lost without the love. I've lost things I've never even had. A whole life.

I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squashed, and both his eyes had burst. He had bluish wings. He was the saddest ghost in the house.

Strange things are happening to us.''To our children.''They say he is looking for the spirit of Independence.''They say he is looking for himself.''For his own spirit.''Which he lost when the white man came.

La liberté c'est un privilège qu'on ne savoure vraiment qu'après qu'on vous en a privé.

Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom. Her face was puffy and pale and fuzzed-over. She just came in and said: "Ashmol, Pobby and Dingan are maybe-dead." That's how she said it.

the investor would be on the hook for 10 percent of the loss.

For me personally and for the entire Fed, Don's retirement was a great loss. He

For me personally and for the entire Fed, Don's retirement was a great loss. He is an outstanding economist and a wise policymaker, admired and trusted by colleagues throughout the Federal Reserve System and at central banks around the world.

It was a real loss for the Fed and the country.

Their skills were getting rusty and they were losing their contacts in the working world.