Quotes About Loss

Verzweifelt hatte er sie gefragt, wie sie sich so sicher sein konnte, dass sie ihn nicht liebte. Ihre Worte darauf hatten ihm das Herz aus dem Leib geschnitten. ?Weil ich dich nie vermisst habe, nachdem du gegangen warst.?

It is as if people refused to leave their dead alone, forced them back into the light, made them keep their composure even in death.

Nicht das ich Hanna vergessen hätte. Aber irgendwann hörte die Erinnerung auf, mich zu begleiten.

Sé que me pareció hermosa. Pero no consigo evocar su hermosura.

But without going to such extremes prudence may easily involve the loss of some of the best things in life. The worshipper of Dionysus reacts against prudence. In intoxication, physical or spiritual, he recovers an intensity of feeling which prudence had destroyed; he finds the world full of delight and beauty, and his imagination is suddenly liberated from the prison of every-day preoccupations

Seducing highborn ladies, and raping peasant girls was a lark, but when Piers had suggested murder, he had thought him simply struggling with the frustration of losing for the first time in his life.

And still it was gone. Seeing it again could not be living it again. You can always rediscover an old path and wander over it, but the best you can do then is to say, Ah, yes, I know this turning! -- or remind yourself that, while you remember that unforgettable valley, the valley no longer remembers you.

if I were, even now, without either a dog or a horse in my keeping, I should feel I had lost contact with the earth.

Sin duda, es eso lo que hace de la muerte algo tan duro: la curiosidad insatisfecha

Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

Raymond, through some curious alchemy of his own, had come really to think a divorce was something you could win, as opposed to a situation in which the wounded attempt to contain loss. She once said to her friend Annie, "It's like fighting over who gets the litterbox after the cat is dead. Raymond has forgotten we ever had a cat; he actually wants the litterbox. Full." She said Annie had laughed and then Martha cried

nobody owns grief

The pain of a hard good-bye is the heart's tribute to the privilege to love.

In fact, the absence of appropriate grief after loss may be an indicator of another kind of serious stronghold.

It's because a country-western song can start you out at a family picnic eating buttermilk-fried chicken and watermelon on your great-grandmother's quilt, with butterflies flitting about, and before it ends, your daddy's gone to prison and your momma's run off with the preacher and your little brother's blowing butterflies to dust with a BB gun.

The downside of human closeness is that, to the degree you have loved their presence, you grieve their loss. Amanda

We can remain surrendered to the cause of Christ, sacrificial and sanctified, gospel driven to the bone, and our fruitfulness can still suffer loss. All the devil has to do is lure us away from abiding in Christ.

When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.

HBOS had robbed me of my marriage, my family, my businesses, my longstanding friend and business partner, my income, my investments, my self-respect, my reputation, my privacy, my physical and mental health. It cost me my security, my image rights, my collection of classic cars - and very nearly my life.

The first jolt I received in my life was when I lost my father in a motorcycle accident when I was eight. I would have been with him if he hadn't turned down my request to go out with him that afternoon.

Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.

Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.