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Quotes About Loss

Don't break my heart. Crush it. Destroy it. Let me wallow it until I feel hollow in it. I'll bash in the pain. I'll scream your name and then one day I suddenly won't.
~ Dominic Riccitello
Some people you're not meant to get over.
~ Dominic Riccitello
Impossible to let go ... No longer knowing how to hold on.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
Shattered edges of the diamonds rough sets to cut the unsuspecting.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
Saige, Mother is . . ." I briefly close my eyes and swallow, clearing my mouth from saliva. "Mother is dead.
~ Jada Berglund, Saige
People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever.
~ Debasish Mridha
Who are we without our memories?
~ Marta Acosta, Dark Companion
To be heartbroken means to have a story
~ Austin Wright, Tony and Susan
What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you?And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're ok?
~ The Script
You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away.
~ French Montana
I love you. And I don't want to lose you.
~ Cassandra Clare
It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.
~ Jessica Sorensen
I don't know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don't think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.
~ Cassandra Clare
It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.
~ Jim Carroll
Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
~ James Hillman
This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?
~ Jeanette Winterson
Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever
~ Jandy Nelson
In Lacan's view, it is not just dreams but conscious subjective experience in general that is organized into distracting little stories, and it is the folly of ego psychology and object relations theories to have bought into the disguises offered by secondary elaboration, to have taken the illusory stories as real, rather than covers for an underlying sense of loss, absence, castration.
~ Stephen A. Mitchell
One may take on some qualities of a loved one following her death; the five-year-old identifies with his father's moral code in response to the oedipal frustration of being denied mother as a sexual partner. As long as gratification is available via objects in the real world, identification is irrelevant. When gratification is interrupted, when the object is lost or becomes unavailable because of conflict, the object is internalized to permit fantasy gratification. Identification
~ Stephen A. Mitchell
Do you know who W.H. Auden was, Mr. Iscariot? W.H. Auden was a poet who once said, "God may reduce you on Judgement Day to tears of shame reciting by heart the poems you would have written had your life been good"…She was my poem, Mr. Iscariot. Her and the kids. But mostly her. You cashed in for silver, Mr. Iscariot. But me? Me…I threw away gold. That's a fact. That's a natural fact.
~ Stephen Adly Guirgis
objects. Added to the trauma of moving
~ Stephen Birmingham
I came to know and like some Germans later on. But I hated the enemy then for what they tried to do to Johnnie Cock and what they did to Johnnie Dewar, our squadron leader, later in the battle. He parachuted out, but when we found his body, it was riddled with bullets. Some of our people say what wonderful men the German pilots were personally. But I still feel that men who could shoot boys in parachutes are not people I want to know.14
~ Stephen Bungay
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
~ Stephen Chbosky