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Quotes About Loss

Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past.
~ Andrew Solomon
Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of time, and the necessary death of the well-loved, wise old man.
~ Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
The clock sweats out each minuteof what meat is left to us.
~ Joseph Bathanti, This Metal
I still have your wrist watch but I couldn't hold the time still.
~ Bhavik Sarkhedi
And a moment that ought to have lasted for everHas come and gone before I knew.
~ Li Shang-yin
You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure, That time is no healer: the patient is no longer here.
~ T.S. Eliot, The Dry Salvages
Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore.
~ Dianna Hardy, Rise Of The Wolf
There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms.
~ Anthony Liccione
People who don't respect the time you spent with them, don't know they have lost the gift of good memories.
~ Aditya Bhaskara
Minutes turn into hours, and lifetimes into moments. Universes are created and destroyed with nary a pop. What was saved, no longer ex- ists. What was lost, no longer matters.
~ D.L. Orton, Crossing in Time
If I believe in the wish, I must believe I can lose it.
~ Destin Bays, True Love
Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
~ Alice Hoffman, Local Girls
A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one.
~ David Mitchell, number9dream
Once time is lost it can never be regained
~ Sunday Adelaja
Later—how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you—Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.
~ Dexter Palmer, Version Control
All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.
~ H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people's lives. When we have our heart broken or our dreams taken away from us, it is a time of growth and change.
~ Debbie Ford
There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers much time will go by before it is rectified.
~ Nostradamus
If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.
~ Peter Capaldi
And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.
~ Paul Reiser
There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.
~ Salman Rushdie
This world is not a place where people can be together forever.
~ Junaid Jamshed
Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
~ Mike Mills
You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.
~ Thomas Bernhard