Quotes About Loss

A la pérdida del olfato (una cosa terrible, vi un documental sobre el tema el otro día. Vera, Vera, vamos, Vera, vení). A la policía. A los estadios de fútbol. A las tormentas eléctricas. A la soledad. A las muchedumbres. A la violencia. A la vejez. Al sida, al cáncer (entra en enfermedad). A la impotencia (¿entra en soledad?). A los ladrones. A la electricidad. A sufrir (entran todos los miedos juntos y se agrega el amor).

la pérdida de lo cotidiano se traduce en una suerte de ansiedad general asordinada en la que, buscando recuperar el tiempo que no pasamos juntos, nos hundimos.

Caí en la cuenta de que no tenía amigos (yo no tenía amigos). Los había perdido, había dejado de verlos, de llamarlos, de interesarme por ellos.

I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.

Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them.

Funny to get so close...only to have him ripped away again.

It is the sort of suffering that cannot be done justice with words. I can say only this—that I suspect it is an anguish from which one never recovers. A walking death.

I didn't like my father all that much," said the admiral. "But before he died, he gave me a piece of advice. The only one that ever really made a difference in my life. 'Hug your children,' he said. 'Kiss your mothers and fathers, your brothers and sisters. Tell them how much you love them, every day. Because every day is the last day. Every light casts a shadow. And only the gods know when the darkness will find us.

There were people you cared about. Maybe not many, but there were a few and when you cared about them enough it hurt.

You'll probably throw me out eventually. Next week..or twenty years from now... Sooner or later, you'll get worn out... And leave me for real... Maybe I'll gaze, dumbfounded, at a life with nothing left. That's okay, I'll watch you leave...knowing our love has died. I'll adorn the road of death with flowers. Since that's all I can do.

More people today die with cancer, than because of cancer.

know that loss, and losing someone or something very important in my life, can seem unfair in every way. So I choose to do my best to accept the truth of my loss, continue to trust in a brighter, more sensible day to come, have the patience to wait for the sunrise, and believe with all my heart that the light is coming.

There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that ' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad.

My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.

It was the knowing that there had been a happier time, a place of joy and peace and security, that made the sudden absence of it all so agonizing… Not the agony of what was, but the agony of what was no longer; this was the source of all life's pain--not the fear of a hell to come, but rather the knowledge of an Eden that is no more. Hell isn't the punishment… Eden was.

He took the diary from Mother's hand and turned it over. The heartbreaking something, he read, of a tragic whatever.

There was light and there was darkness, and where once, so recently, he had sat at his desk bathed in that light, now he was clothed in the black cover of heartbreak.

Thousands of years of language and literature and we haven't come up with something better than these two, tired words - I'm sorry - to express sympathy for a loss.

Thousands of years of language and literature and we haven't come up with something better than these two, tired words -I'm sorry-' to express sympathy for a loss. Maybe because deep down we know that nothing we say can help someone who's suffering.

Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked will I return. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

We watched our friends grow up together And we saw them as they fell Some of them fell into Heaven Some of them fell into Hell

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.

She put a wedge beside my heart And then she brought the mallet down She sang no song to guide her work I lost my heart without a sound