Quotes About Loss

I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them.

I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care

When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

In my childhood diary I wrote: "I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.

Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your fear makes a space for that to happen, it does. What's the point?

Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.

Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?

The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love." from "Memoriam

He is the vampire that had the greatest love of all times. And lost the greatest love of all times.

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story