Quotes About Loss

and are paying a heavy price for losing.

I'm sorry for taking your life, friend.

saw you, Mom and Dad, our grandparents—pretty much everyone we know. Dead. In coffins.

You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?

AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.

The life of a person is more than the chaos of its passing. Emotion, Ruin. This is your defeat.

How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

My life," Melody declared, "is a tragedy.

None of it mattered. He would just keep living. They'd taken his freedom, his family, his friends, and— most dear of all— his dreams. They could do nothing more to him.

Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.

I will sing to you. As your ship burns and your soul flees, I will sing. To the contest we had.

I tried to bring them back, but apparently fixing the bodies doesn't return the souls.

Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've already given away everything you could have cared about losing.

Empathy is an emotional loss leader. It pays for itself eventually.

It had been eight years. The pain of loss was still there. It never went away. It just got buried in time, like a rock slowly being covered over by dirt.

Sometimes you need to accept what you've lost, then move forward. Then you can instead realize what you've gained.

The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal … well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

Dalinar Kholin was a connoisseur of death. Even since his youth, the sight of dead men had been a familiar thing to him. You stay on the battlefield long enough, and you become familiar with its master.

Oh, they had leaders, Master Kelsier," Sazed said. "Dead ones, true, but leaders nonetheless." "Some men would say that their devotion didn't make sense," Kelsier said. "The loss of the Vallan leaders should have broken the people, not made them more determined to keep going." Sazed shook his head. "Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

The baking thing is an actual tradition," Wit added. "I once visited a place where—if you lose a battle—your mother has to bake the other fellow something tasty. I rather liked those people." "Pity you didn't remain with them longer," Dalinar said. "Ha! Well, I didn't think it wise to stay around. After all, they were cannibals.

I looked at Hurl's lacerated face, her one remaining eye staring ahead. Defiant until the end, for all the good it had done. Brave . . . cowardly . . . she was still dead, so what did it matter?

Sometimes I wonder if I'm going mad. Perhaps it is due to the pressure of knowing that I must somehow bear the burden of an entire world. Perhaps it is caused by the death I have seen, the friends I have lost. The friends I have been forced to kill.

I wanted a frozen burrito. Sara died for that.

I couldn't remember what it felt like to laugh. I wondered if that meant I had already drowned.