Quotes About Loss

It's the only bad thing about animals," she told Cleon. "Most don't live as long as we do." "I know, sweet," Cleon said, kissing first one of her eyelids, then the other. "But think how bleak life would be without them.

Most disasters are fast, and big. You can see everyone else's life got overturned when yours did. Houses are smashed, livestock's dead. But plagues isolate people. They shut themselves inside while disease takes a life at a time, day after day. It adds up. Whole cities break under the load of what was lost. People stop trusting each other, because you don't know who's sick.

It was almost warm for the first day of New Year; she was dressed comfortably; she had a good horse and Faithful with her and Coram at her side. Roger's death was bad, she thought, but life could be much, much worse. Perhaps I'll live and be happy after, all.

When my first wife died long ago, in Ethiopia, I thought I knew grief. But until you have witnessed the death of a loved one to another man's violence, you know nothing of grief.

I loved him, just for a minute. I loved him and I grieved for him and my pity was part of the beauty, before the shame began.

And I will love you; for such as I am, I do not give my love lightly, but once given it is sure. Only remember this, if ever you make an enemy of me, your life shall be as dust or sand in the wind. For what a demon loves and loses he will destroy, and my power is the mightiest you are ever likely to know.

She braced herself for the pain of the perfect horn breaking her heart.

Then he was gone, and all the colors and the light of the day crumbled and went out.

Everything now had been taken from him, his striving after goodness, his hopes, his pride, even that human revenge upon fate--to destroy his own life-- for he was invulnerable. A terrible predicament he was in, to be utterly suicidal, and unable to perish.

But be sure, the age of Innocence was ended.

It is the ability to perform for days or weeks like balanced and cheerful automata, when some substrata, something upon which our codes or our hopes had firmly rested has given way. Men who lose their wives or their God are quite capable of behaving in this manner, for an indefinite season. After which the collapse is brilliant and total.

Death had been love's price.

Do you feel the soul sucked from you, most elegant swordsman?

The grief would now take the world from him and deliver him to darkness, and he was glad of it.

Where is my poppy, my catling? Where is my young lady?

It would seem it was one thing to be murdered, another to be humiliated.

Let the sky weep for me, Doro. Now I can only weep blood.

For this was not the outcry of love, but one at last, and utterly, and forever, cheated.

Life is catastrophe....Everything is unfair. Who do we complain to in this shitty place?....We all lose everything that matters in the end....it's possible to play it with a kind of joy.p.767, The Goldfinch

Do not allow fear to bind you up, dear one. You will only lose what you already have.

Our bodies, our relationships, our lives. We're terrified of losing those things because we think they make us who we are. Fear of loss keeps it all in place. Dying means letting go of all of it, our entire life in the world, to know ourselves beyond the images and relationships apparent in this world.

The light you've always been. Better to lose your whole life in body than to remain lost to the light that you are. But you cling to your experience of this life and fear loss. See? You've made an agreement with fear to keep you safe. It's your master.

But the jewel you lost was blue.

Day by day his sister grew Paler with the wound She could not see or touch or feel, as I dressed it Each day with her blue Breton jacket. - from Life After Death