Quotes About Loss

The loss of hope versus the certainty of truth. It's not an easy judgment to make.

Death wasn't frightening to a man alone. The great beyond held no terror when one had managed to avoid attachments here on earth.

He didn't often talk about his father, not even with his family. He'd told himself that it was because it was so much under the bridge; Edmund had been dead for over ten years. But the truth was that some things simply hurt too much. And there were some wounds that didn't heal, not even in ten years.

I am sure it is not worth such high drama. I do not profess to know or understand romantic love between husband and wife, but surely it is not so all-encompassing that the loss of one would destroy the other. You are stronger than you think, dear sister. You would survive quite handily without him, moot point though it may be.

Llegó a creer que había muerto, ¿Por qué cómo podía estar él ahí con ella si no estaba en el cielo?

The loss of hope versus the certainty of truth.

He was dead, of course, but I needed a little more time. I just sat beside him and watched his face." Another short burst of angry laughter escaped his lips. "God, what a fool I was. I think I half expected him to open his eyes at any moment.

There's a kind of grief that just eats one up. It weighs one down.

And Anthony, who'd only just learned what it was to love, learned what it was to die inside.

It's hard to believe that someone is gone when he looks so normal and at peace.

He had fallen in love with his wife, and now the thought of dying, of leaving her, of knowing that their moments together would form a short poem and not a long and lusty novel—it was more than he could bear.

He halted his words, sinking into a chair, trying very hard to get past the fact that he was perilously close to tears. Right here, in John's study, with this damnable little man who didn't seem to understand that a man had died, not just an earl, but a man, Michael wanted to cry. And he would, he suspected. As soon as Lord Winston left, and Michael could lock the door and make sure that no one could see him, he would probably bury his face in his hands and cry.

was somehow even more heartbreaking. "I wonder if it would be easier," she said, "knowing for sure." "I don't know. The loss of hope versus the certainty of truth. It's not an easy judgment to make.

It's . . . very difficult . . . when someone dies, and you can only watch, and you can't do anything to stop

When guys get to a certain age or certain level in their career maybe they don't do as much or work as hard so they start to lose some of that stuff. It's inevitable that at some point your going to lose most of what you've had.

It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

The romance of English football is fantastic, but it has lost its identity under the influence of other cultures.

My father and one of my grandfathers died very early, and female figures have been an influential part of my life.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

You never know when this can be gone. It's sad to say, but with all the injuries around the league, it can be gone in a blink of an eye.

Football was a natural thing for me, and with no injuries or injury history that would stop me from training, I just enjoyed coming in every day and playing; then it was taken away from me.