Quotes About Loss

The idea of losing someone that you love could throw you into a situation where you could not see your future and you really would be living in the past.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.

Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]

Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.

She looks at him for a long moment, then sighs deeply. "Silver," she says, her voice tinged with a profound sadness with which he is all too familiar. All the things you can't get back, all the things you can never make right. No matter what happens after, you'll always carry them with you.

because there is something beautiful in grief, isn't there? It's like mourning is your Chrysalis and when the time comes you'll be reborn as this beautiful butterfly.

You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there's always a last time.

Non sai mai quando sarà l'ultima volta in cui vedi tuo padre o baci tua moglie o giochi con il tuo fratellino, ma c'è sempre un'ultima volta. Se riuscissimo a ricordare ogni ultima volta, non smetteremmo mai di crucciarci.

So his actual death itself was less of an event than a final sad detail.

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

This happens a lot, I've noticed. People form shiva alliances, arriving together to eliminate the risk of a one-on-one with the bereaved.

that's how she stays with you forever, by making sure you're okay after she's gone. It's like emotional life insurance.

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up. "Look

Grief can be catered just like anything else.

You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost.

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.