Quotes About Loss

The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. Love and death are not different things, they are the front and back of the same thing.

You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.

You know, that's all basketball is. If someone loves something, and you take it away, it's like what does he do now? What does someone do? That's what happened with me.

It's cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here

Everybody knows that love goes away.

We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of—but we never love again.

I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.

Although our love never dies, the pain of our loss can eventually dissolve.

Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.

Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away

I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.

I lost my one true love. I started drinking.

When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.

Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.

Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?

You shall leave everything you love.

Every love story is a ghost story.

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

Hold on to the love, not the loss.

There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.

People destroy what they love.

when someone you love dies, he becomes your enemy; he fights you tooth and nail from a hidden position; he successfully raids what small provisions you have gathered to keep yourself going.

People hate to loose more than they love to win.

I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.