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Quotes About Loss

My heart still full of her, Traveled over her face, and found her there no more... I thought to myself that a women unknown Had adopted by chance that voice and those eyes And I let the chilly statue pass Looking at the skies. Alfredde Musset
~ Fari Amini
I wonder now… were my tears for Alex and Al and all the others who had gone and who were yet to go? Or was I weeping for myself…and those who would remain?
~ Farley Mowat
even as she says it, sees love drain out of his eyes: and somehow, as a stream, which seeks its own level, it flows over into hers, and her fate is sealed. The less he loves, the more she will.
~ Fay Weldon
I would have felt that I nailed his coffin. He was a wonderful person, Peter. A sweet man with a brilliant mind. In some ways he was much more attentive to me than Yitzchak. He would never do anything criminal, Peter. Just as you wouldn't. It's not in his makeup.
~ Faye Kellerman
El más terrible de todos los sentimientos es el sentimiento de tener la esperanza muerta.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Pero yo ya no soy yo, ni mi casa es ya mi casa.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Like a snake, my heart has shed its skin. I hold it there in my hand, full of honey and wounds. The thoughts that nested in your folds, where are they now?...
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
La nostalgia terrible de una vida perdida, el fatal sentimiento de haber nacido tarde, o la ilusión inquieta de un mañana imposible con la inquietud cercana del dolor de la carne.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Era hermoso jinete, y ahora montón de nieve. Corrió ferias y montes y brazos de mujeres. Ahora, musgo de noche le corona la frente
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Emilio, Enrique, Estaban los tres enterrados: Lorenzo en un seno de Flora; Emilio en la, yerta ginebra que se olvida en el vaso, Enrique en la hormiga, en el mar y en los ojos vacíos de los pájaros.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Yerma. «[…] ¿Qué queréis saber? No os acerquéis, porque he matado a mi hijo. ¡Yo misma he matado a mi hijo!".
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Prima tuo padre, che odorava di garofano e non me lo sono goduta neanche tre anni. Poi tuo fratello. E ti pare giusto, è mai possibile che una cosa piccola come una pistola o un coltello possa finire un uomo che è un toro? Non smetterei mai di parlarne. Passano i mesi e la disperazione mi brucia gli occhi e su su fino alla punta dei capelli.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Yo no miré a nadie. Miré a tu padre y cuando lo mataron miré a la pared de enfrente.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Para ver que todo se ha ido dame to mudo hueco, ¡amor mío! Nostalgia de academia y cielo triste. ¡Para ver que todo se ha ido!
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
La Soleá" All in this world has broken. All that's left is silence. (Leave me in this field weeping.)
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
As I lose myself in the heart of certain children, I have lost myself in the sea many times. Ignorant of the water I go seeking a death full of light to consume me. — Federico García Lorca, from "Gacela De La Huida (Garcela Of The Flight)," The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca . Trans. Stephen Spender and J. L. Gili. (New Directions; unknown edition May 17, 2005) Originally published December 3rd 1915.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Amor de mis entrañas, viva muerte, en vano espero tu palabra escrita y pienso, con la flor que se marchita, que si vivo sin mí quiero perderte.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night. I am afraid of being, on this shore, a branchless trunk, and what I most regret is having no flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my despair. If you are my hidden treasure, if you are my cross, my dampened pain, if I am a dog, and you alone my master, never let me lose what I have gained, and adorn the branches of your river with leaves of my estranged Autumn.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Death laid its eggs in the wound
~ Federico García-Lorca
I am the immense shadow of my tears
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Pero yo ya no soy yo Ni mi casa es ya mi casa. But now I am no longer I, nor is my house any longer my house.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
De lo que ya no existe se habla con indiferencia o con frialdad; pero yo hablo con dolor, porque hablo antes que deje de existir y sabiendo que dejará de existir. Recuérdese cómo lo afirmé.
~ Felisberto Hernández
Marena," he said with an effort, "Marena...." He did not recognize her. His voice failed.
~ Felix Salten
No.. no questo tipo no, non è capace. Questo vuole prendere tutto, arraffare tutto, non sa rinunciare a niente; cambia strada ogni giorno perché ha paura di perdere quella giusta, e sta morendo, come dissanguato.
~ Fellini, Federico