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Quotes About Loss

Lost love is still love.
~ Mitch Albom
But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.
~ Rosamund Lupton
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
~ Anais Nin
I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
~ Andrew Davies
If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
~ Andrew Solomon
I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
~ Andrew Solomon
This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.
~ Ann Aguirre
They said the moment I fell in love with you was the moment you'd leave.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender.
~ Benedict Freedman
The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.
~ Colley Cibber
Goodbye, my love, my life. Goodbye, goodbye.
~ Dalton Trumbo
My daughter fell in love with Ben Barnes, of course. She's 17. What are you gonna do? That was a tragic loss. He didn't fall in love with her.
~ Diane Keaton
I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.
~ Edna O'Brien
Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.
~ Giannina Braschi
There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.
~ James Frey
Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
~ James Russell Lowell
Mourning your first love is as important as meeting your first love. It's the whole cycle.
~ Jane Anderson
Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it.
~ Johannes von Tepl
Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.
~ John Ford
We all miss you so much. It just never ends. It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. I miss you. I love you.
~ John Green
When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.
~ John Scalzi