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Quotes About Loss

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.
~ George Santayana
I don't know what to say, except I love Ryan Dunn and I'm really going to miss him.
~ Steve-O
I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.
~ Maurice Sendak
I've been looking at people and how they change with the times, and lately all I've been seeing are people throwing love away and losing their minds.
~ Michael Martin Murphey
For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.
~ Michael Milken
It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.
~ Nicholas Sparks
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
~ Aharon Appelfeld
Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
~ Alexander Pope
Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.
~ Amy Winehouse
It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.
~ Felicity Kendal
We love our dear ones deeply and miss them when they leave us. But we know that the bond of love is greater than death.
~ Harold Klemp
When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
~ Gary Zukav
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
~ William Faulkner
I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
Love is disgusting when you no longer possess yourself.
~ Pola Negri
I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be.
~ Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland
You learn to move on without the people you love.
~ Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
My sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love.
~ Kathy Lette
You only realize how much you love somebody when one day they dont love you back.
~ Luka Magnotta
Isn't the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more 'I love you's.
~ Roland Barthes
But I'll always love you, and I'll always miss you and I'll never forget that It's okay to put dragons in the jungle and tears on a tiger
~ Sharon M. Draper