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Quotes About Loss

It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.
~ George A Tice
Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.
~ George Herbert
The reason it's so painful when someone disappears is you have to face the fact that the person you loved had probably left you a long time before he grabbed his coat and scrammed.
~ Greg Behrendt
There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.
~ Harriet Martineau
Not everything was lost in the flow of time
~ Haruki Murakami
[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old.
~ Helen Hooven Santmyer
Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound.
~ Hilma Wolitzer
I would remain nearer you for what time there is." "Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. "I can hold my breath.
~ Holly Black
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
~ Horace
Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?
~ Horace
I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time.
~ Ilona Andrews
We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.
~ Isaac Marion
By losing my external things, I found myself. I found something very powerful, very permanent, that I could have with me all the time.
~ Isha Judd
How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?
~ Ishmael Beah
Truly saddened by the loss of one of the greatest fashion icons of all time. Oscar de la Renta will be greatly missed.
~ Ivanka Trump
She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.
~ J. Courtney Sullivan
When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard
I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.
~ Jandy Nelson
Each time someone dies, a library burns.
~ Jandy Nelson
Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away.
~ Jane Hirshfield
I lose things all the time. I used to lose my license all the time before I put a place in my car for it.
~ Janet Jackson
Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.
~ Javier Marías
Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
~ Jesse Owens