Quotes About Loss

This was the nightmare that had plagued her for months...the same despair that washed over her now. She was losing him.

I didn't accept him, Eliza thought but didn't say, because he wasn't you.

She was very special to me. But I think I'm going to have to get back...so I can. God. So I can kill her. -Dylan

Funny thing, losing your virginity; it sounded like she'd misplaced it somewhere, like she lost it at the mall, or dropped it on the street.

Schuyler knew that one day it would come to this. That she would have to lose one to have the other one. That this game would have consequences.

A breakup is the single most traumatic event in the life of a woman outside of a death. Some women can take years to recover.

Because if anything can make death feel like a truly desirable alternative, it's getting dumped.

Sometimes someone just takes a sledgehammer to your heart and even if you still have feelings for them, you can't ever quite feel the way you used to. The innocent part is all gone.

A jagged stone existed where her heart had been.

And even though she could remember most of the sentences and every plot point, the story would never be what it had been. She would never again be who she'd been.

I went to your funeral, Annie. She hardened herself against the thickness in his voice, and reached for the door handle. Was it nice? He slid in front of her, his back against the door. His hard smile was at her eye level. I don't know. I only got through it with the help of a fifth, so I was too drunk to see much of anything.

Oh, Jack. Though she was laughing, tears rushed in. You won't see the sun again. Annie. He turned until she rose over him. Gently, his fingers traced the curve of her smile. Yes, I will.

Love and closeness often bring a sense of loss of control.

the trials and tensions of the world take us back behind our ego where the Divine Self is waiting, that part I know is truth. We aren't the God of the Western world, but each of us is a piece of the Divine. Pain and loss initiate us to our oneness with each other, God, and life. Nothing can separate us from God, no matter how alone we feel.

Denial is the shock absorber for the soul. It is an instinctive and natural reaction to pain, loss and change. It protects us, It wards off the blows of the life until we can gather our other coping resources.

you don't fully appreciate what you've got until something threatens to take it away.

Perdido por perdido, bien jodido, el polvo más costoso de mi vida, se dijo. Se espantó de su propio chiste. Soy un monstruo, súbitamente un monstruo. La culpa había sido de la luna. Demasiado caliente, la luna del Chaco. Sobre todo, después de ocho años de ausencia. Perdido por perdido. Estaba jugado.

Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.

for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and dream, and before long, they ceased to believe--or hope-- for anything.

what the hell do I do about a broken lifebond? He shook his head, obviously at a loss. I can't tell you; I don't know. I don't Heal minds, I Heal bodies. And I don't know of anyone who Heals hearts.

Van, Van, we're only simple, fallible mortals - we aren't saints, we aren't angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly -

My kith and kin have long since vanished into time—

Remember this always: to have something, sometimes you must be willing to lose it. Love must live free, jel'enedra. Love must ever live free.

The Long Way Home Why is it when people feel they are losing each other they always leave each other? Why do people walk away from their house when all they have to do to get home is turn around?