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Quotes About Loss

I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in front of me.
~ Vanessa Veselka
And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.
~ Will Christopher Baer
Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
~ Willa Cather
It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday.
~ Zakk Wylde
Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.
~ Heather Brewer, First Kill
The world is dyed with the color of blood. It will never be able to go back to the way it was before.
~ Matsuri Hino
And it is a quiet terrible thing, too, to discover the value of love this way [after loss] - when the object of love is no longer there, when love dies or goes away or changes. When it is too late.
~ Vera Nazarian
He doesn't deserve it. he can have any girl in the world's love and he took yours. someone who deserves so much more than a summer fling
~ Abbi Glines
When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.
~ Agnetha Faltskog
Only love can break a heart into so many pieces. -Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss if there hadn't been love.
~ Amy Harmon
I've learned... That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.
~ Andy Rooney
What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
~ John Galsworthy
Every love story is a potential grief story.
~ Julian Barnes
Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.
~ Junot Diaz
All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.
~ Katharine Kerr
It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.
~ Roger Ebert
But if you loved me Why'd you leave me?
~ Steve Garrigan
Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
If there were no Love, there'd be no grief
~ Zig Ziglar
I'm afraid love is just a word.
~ Harry Mulisch
We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.
~ Judith Viorst
When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of great love.
~ Billy Graham