Quotes About Loss

Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.

Meet my dead dad, he replied.

We get inflamed, I guess, when people come back and try to make something of the case. It's like we heal and then the wound opens again. It was hard enough for me, but Allison lost her sister. It doesn't matter that it was in 1978.

Her texts indicated she had been spending a lot more time in the maintenance shed building since Stevie had been gone, and that she was getting much more serious with Vi Harper-Tomo.

more never came home from the other trenches,' said

First love is the only pure and happy one. If it goes wrong, nothing can replace it. Later loves can never attain to the same limpid perfection; though they may be as solid, as marble, they are streaked with veins of another colour, the dried blood of the past.

For in truth the years have little effect on our nature and age does not free us of our faults. We lose our hair more quickly than our weaknesses.

Never fear. When this rose blooms, you will be with me again.

I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more. ... What I dread is the isolation. ... There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.

No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not exist except in my mind I have a feeling of sadness, looking around for them, as if the half-empty cafe were a place I had once come to with friends who had all moved away.

damned good friend. As they neared the Chain Bridge, Gutierrez's sense of loss was heightened by the knowledge that his colleague would almost certainly be replaced by a liberal, thanks to the Devlin Harrison presidency. Conservatives would still control the Court, true, but the balance would now be only five to four. The concern

She could taste loss in the back of her throat so badly that she could vomit.

Tell me what you think love is! I seriously want to know! Okay, Eliot said. It's defining yourself through the eyes of another. It's coming to know a human being on a level so intimate that you lose any meaningful distinction between you, and you carry the knowledge that you are insufficient without her every day for twenty years, until she drives an animal transport at you, and you shoot her. It's that.

Why should the disseizin of his soul have seemed shameful to him? He had had no soul till it passed out of his keeping.

Without pretending to be quite sure what a skunk is," said the Duke, "I take you to be all that it isn't. And the high esteem in which I hold you is the measure for me of the loss that your death would be to America and to Oxford.

Death would lose much of its sting for him if there were somewhere in the world just one woman, however lowly, whose heart would be broken by his dying.

Take away his love for her, and what remained? Nothing—though only in the past twenty-four hours had this love been added to him.

We lost a hell of a lot more than just people when we abandoned them to the dead.

The first casualty of the conflict must be our own sentimentality" was the closing statement for his proposal, "for its survival will mean our destruction.

The announcement to mother: Don't be sad, mother. God betrayed me. I am His widow. I've become ageless and all my memories are smothered.

Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance.

We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.

Money gone. Expectations dashed. Friends vanished. Who's left? God is.

Spend all your love on her now. Forget not the hands, though spotted, The hair, though thinning, The eyes, though dim, For they are a part of you. And when they are gone, a part of you is gone.