Quotes About Loss

Summer grasses, All that remains Of soldiers' dreams

Grief is like a drunken houseguest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes—maybe even often—it's the solution.

We had once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

When he remembered to turn and look for it, the Talisman was gone.

I'd read a book called A Reliable Wife not too long before leaving on the world's strangest trip, and as I climbed into bed, a line from the novel crossed my mind: 'He had lost the habit of romance.

I'm afraid to go to sleep. I'm afraid my dead friends will come to me, and that seeing them will kill me.

Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument.

Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is only another way of saying that he is the way she measures her sanity. Trying to imagine her life with him gone is like standing on top of a skyscraper and looking at the sidewalk sixty stories below.

It was the look of some woman in a third world country, watching as her village burned.

Leaving for the night, it came to me. What I should have told her. Life goes on - that's what I should have said. That's what you say to people when a loved one dies. But, thinking it over, I was glad I didn't. Because maybe that's what she was afraid of.

The newest animal Route 5 had used up, it seemed, was my daughter's beloved pet. We buried Smucky in the pet sematary. My daughter made the grave marker, which read Smucky: He was obediant. (Smucky wasn't in the least obedient, of course; he was a cat, for heaven's sake.)

Stephen King (Author)

Beyond the 8.5 million war dead and the nearly 8 million taken prisoner or missing, an influenza epidemic would infect 500 million people globally and kill at least 50 million, fully 3 percent of the global population (some estimates range up to 100 million).155

remember that what will die in a year's time is not our essential being but our ability to interact physically with those we love and cherish. You

If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant state of threat and jeopardy that these possessions may be lost or stolen or devalued.

We just came from the hospital where their mother died about an hour ago.

other half of which had the image of the old woman on page 53. He passed

He had burned that book too late.

the sunlight closed behind them like an unregainable door.

If he meant to survive, he could not afford the luxury of grieving over lost hopes. He was a leper; all his hopes were false.

When the spirit is not altogether slain, great loss teaches men and women to desire greatly, both for themselves and for others.

That beauty and truth should pass utterly

There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken. ~Thomas Covenant