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Quotes About Loss

It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory
~ Leonard Cohen
The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.
~ Madame de Stael
It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.
~ Mason Cooley
Dad, would the love end just because a person dies?
~ Park Soo Jin
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
~ Roald Dahl
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
~ Maya Angelou
We need music the most when we're feeling things really intensely. I think the most intense times in your life are when you're either falling in love or losing it
~ Taylor Swift
And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.
~ Taylor Swift
I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska
I want you. I want you so badly I can't stand it. When you left, it felt like the world got darker. Like I couldn't truly see anything. Couldn't feel anything.
~ Rachel Vincent, Alpha
Some things are private. Some things needed to be said, even when the person who needed to hear them couldn't hear anything. Ever again.
~ Rachel Vincent, Alpha
It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.
~ Scott Spencer, Endless Love
God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
~ Ellen Hopkins, Burned
Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.
~ Rosamund Lupton, Sister
A break up is the closest thing to bereavement
~ Lindsey Kelk, I Heart New York
If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.
~ Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now
Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.
~ Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds
Why break the heart that never beat from love?
~ Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
I could take back those moments that snatched you away from me or maybe just wipe away those ten minutes when you came to me for the first time and I looked into your eyes to realise what love is.
~ Faraaz Kazi
Love is an emotion which does not die it disappears.
~ Amit Abraham
It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.
~ Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven