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Quotes About Loss

Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.
~ Jodi Picoult
I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.
~ John Dufresne
The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.
~ Jonathan Bennett
What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it's for the last time?
~ Jonathan Tropper
The only time I can ever remember Steven crying over any of it was after my treatment, when I tried to use my foot on his bass drum pedal, and we realized I could never play a drum set.
~ Jordan Sonnenblick
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Young widows still bide their time.
~ Josh Billings
It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.
~ Judith McNaught
Time takes it all in the end...
~ Stephen King, A Good Marriage
He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.
~ Dante Alighieri
When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.
~ Robin Williams
Whatever time is giving us, it will take everything back!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.
~ Martina Boone
Today is just another day of trying to get by without you.
~ Ranata Suzuki
Any empathic person who knows how valuable time is will think twice before wasting another person's time, because losing time is losing a part of your life.
~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Time is your weapon, If you lose it, you will lose the battle.
~ Khaled Ibrahim
We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.
~ Martina Boone, Compulsion
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
~ John Milton
TimeYou were the oneI wanted mostto stay.But time could notbe kept at bay.The more it goes, the more it's gone—the more it takes away.
~ Lang Leav, Lullabies
You can't buy time, Nick. Ever. It's the only thing in life you can't get most of, and it's the one thing that will mercilessly tear you up when it's gone. It takes no pity on no soul and no heart.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible
They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that's taken my tomorrow, and turned them into yesterday.
~ Ben Harper
And if you don't find what you're looking for?"At Roy's question Addie looked up."Then all I've lost is time.
~ Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls