Quotes About Loss

I had it perfect the first time but I had to lose it to know it.

I had it perfect the first time, but I had to lose it to know.

We spent so many years searching for an archrival for Jordan—the Frazier to his Ali, someone who'd bring out the best in him—when really, that player was probably Len Bias. We were robbed.

My friends and family had put the bedroom back together and I woke the next morning thinking, for one brief second, that it was just another beautiful early-spring day. As I sat up, though, my body began to weep even before my mind recognized the cause for grieving. The world would never be the same. Everything I would make from that day on would recall how it had changed. Everything I did for myself would be in the name of what we had been.

I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me.

This is where dad burried the little raccoon. I don't even know he existed a few days ago and now he's gone forever. It's like I found him for no reason. I had to say good-bye as soon as I said hello. Still...in a sad, awful, terrible way, I'm happy I met him. What a stupid world.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

It still depresses me every time I sing it, though. It reminds me of how Pop died. But I have to keep singing it, not only because people ask for it but because twenty years after Pop died the things that killed him are still happening in the South.

No matter how old you are when a parent dies, it's like losing an anchor that kept you safely moored.

The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.

In the freakish pink and gray of dawn I took his death to bed with me and his death was my bed and in every corner of the room it hid from the light, and then it was the light of day and the next day and all the days to follow, and it moved into the future like the sharp tip of a pen moving across an empty page.

Neighborhood What do I care that they're tearing down the nice old houses and putting up brutal ones? Before very long, I'll be just a breeze blowing around town, trying to avoid all the wind chimes.

There's something about death going on here.

Instability.—It is a horrible thing to feel all that we possess slipping away.

When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.

We are so scared of losing everything that doesn't mean anything.

Setelah beberapa saat, kita baru tahu bahwa privasi adalah hal yang bisa kita jual, tetapi kita tidak bisa membelinya kembali.

People don't value their obscurity. They don't know what it's like to have it taken away…

Hearing about Hank's death caught me squarely on the shoulder. The silence of outer space never seemed so loud.

When I say my name I hear a burned-down church.

I think clapping is how mourn.

I had no business trying to see you leave, see death arrive, I owe you an apology, an elegy, I owe you the drift of memory, the praise of everything, of saying it was the best decision of my life, to hold you full, hold you empty, & live as the only bond between the two.

Cause of death, multiple wounds in upper right chest as well as severing of right arm, all leading to exsanguination." "He bled out," Mac said quickly as Roland began to open his mouth.

single death does not stop the other lives affected by it. It sends them tumbling, staggering, meandering, marching, searching, in different directions.