Quotes About Loss

The sense of loss was deeply familiar - a sudden hole, the universe altered, a recognition of the end of something meaningful and important. How often does one get the chance to be this close to a wild being?

I was grieving for Olivia, too.

he'd slumped beside her. " You can't fear losing me half as much as I fear losing you." It had been a grudging admission; he'd thought her already asleep.

Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.

People say you don't know what you've got till it's gone, but the truth is you just never thought you'd ever lose it.

Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.

Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

There's only one truth about war: people die.

Truth, like beauty, is neither created nor lost.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.

Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn

To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal.

The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.

Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality.