Quotes About Loss

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.

He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway

Almost every person wonders who their soul mate will be or where they will find them and everyone has or will suffer a love loss or the fear of that loss at different points in their lives.

If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

I've given up on you...Love fades. Mine has.

Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.

We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

Everyone we love builds a home in our heart. And when they are gone we spend eternity staring at their empty seat.

Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!

Those you love leave behind their shadows to walk, always, with you in the form of memories.

We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...?

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.