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Quotes About Loss

Sueño que estoy jugando al póker. Nunca he jugado al póker, así que por supuesto pierdo.
~ Ray Loriga
There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.
~ Raymond Carver
Something's died in me," she goes. "It took a long time for it to do it, but it's dead. You've killed something, just like you'd took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.
~ Raymond Carver
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
~ Raymond Chandler
The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your mind for the sake of your heart
~ Raymond E. Feist
I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eves still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.
~ Raymond J. Demallie
The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.
~ Real Live Preacher
At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.
~ Reba McEntire
If I'm not the one thing you can't stand to lose, If I'm not that arrow to the heart of you, If you don't get drunk on my kiss, If you think you can do better than this then I guess we're done. Let's not drag this on, Consider me gone...
~ Reba McEntire
My kind of country is the clear, pure, old-fashioned kind, emotional and gutsy and also sentimental. The songs tell about real human problems - love and the pain of heartbreak and loss - in a way that shows you that the singer is no stranger to pain, and is tough enough to suffer and survive.
~ Reba McEntire
I had to figure out if I was happier being with a live woman or living with the memories of a dead one.
~ Rebecca Forster
The newspaper got it all wrong. They should have called me a harlot and a slut, a poseur and a tease, a nubile and naive, a slattern and a sleaze, a vandalist and anarchist, a dirty dilettante with a fatal and fervent disease. Because I was all of those things in the twelve days when there was too much rain and I was burning and I found and lost Justine.
~ Rebecca Godfrey
A person whom one has loved seems altogether too significant a thing to simply vanish altogether from the world. A person whom one loves is a world, just as one knows oneself to be a world.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
Zsofía Forgách had died in the spring, and since then I had noticed a change in him, a subtle shift from merriment to contemplation, from engaging in the games the men played to an almost womanish need to stand back and watch with an appraising eye, as if his companions were people he had never seen before and did not know how to place
~ Rebecca Johns
I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.
~ Kara Swisher
Life at home wasn't very good and I had really left by the time I was 16 and didn't go back until after Cambridge when I went to look after my mother when she was dying.
~ Roger Scruton
I can't hold a camera anymore.
~ Eve Arnold
Lots of shows get cancelled, and then they never get to end their stories. It's just over.
~ Andrew Haigh
My mother battled cancer for 12 years before losing her fight.
~ Jenna Morasca
I'm not mad at anybody for that, but when I lost my deal at Capitol, things got rough.
~ Walker Hayes
I had a lot of issues in my life after my brother died in 1972, that I carried through to my adult life.
~ Nigel Benn
You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.
~ Warren Cuccurullo
I know the feeling after a catastrophic loss, to be so close and have it all just end.
~ Carson Palmer
Why should DMK align with Congress after blaming the Congress of taking revenge on it for the 2G scam, which caused the exchequer a loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore. Why should Congress take revenge? Does that mean the Congress did not get its due share from the DMK?
~ J. Jayalalithaa