Quotes About Loss

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

We lost lovely youth facing the rough clouds of war

When hearts break they do not break even.

When friends asked how he was coping with his spectacular loss, he would say, 'I sleep like a baby – I wake up every ten minutes screaming!' He was advised on health grounds to take a holiday, so he went to his home in Ibiza and ran regularly on the beach. 'Someone asked me later how much I had lost. I said, "$300 million and 20lbs.

You can decorate absence however you want- but your still gonna feel what's missing.

And then Gwalchmai said, 'No one should distract an ordained knight from his thoughts in a discourteous way, for perhaps he has either suffered a loss or he is thinking about the woman he loves best.

Most of our heart breaks were caused by those that were never meant to be with us.

Nothing ever breaks the heart, besides what it loves.

Sometimes we lose what we were not supposed to, by not willing to change.

The name of valiant person will always be an umbrella of a dead loss.

We may be strong, but not in memories.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt.

He first deceased; she for a little triedTo live without him, liked it not, and died.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

It is strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.

It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.

What call ye them or Goods or Ills, ill-goods, good-ills, a loss, a gain, When realms arise and falls a roof; a world is won, a man is slain?

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.

Loss. A known absence. If you didn't know it, it would be nothing, which it is, of course, a nothing of another kind, as acutely felt as a blister, but a tumult, too, in the region of the heart and lungs, an emptiness with a name: You

Sometimes even now I think I see him in the street or standing in a window or bent over a book in a coffee shop. And in that instant, before I understand that it's someone else, my lungs tighten and I lose my breath.

My mother's idiosyncratic definition of the word is the following: we all suffer and we all die."Never, ever," my mother said to me when I was eleven,"say 'pass away' for 'to die.' People die. They don't evaporate.

Who had read my poems, who held my hand, who was dead before he could visit me in the hospital where he had been, too, landed, too, on his flights to heaven and drops into hell.

The misery I felt was grief. I wanted her back, my old self.