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Quotes About Loss

Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.
~ Norman Mailer
The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.
~ P. D. James
Pop songs now, they're about the aftermath of love.
~ Parker Posey
But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.
~ Paula McLain
I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.
~ Paulo Coelho
I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
~ Peter Greenaway
Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose-- What is gone is gone.
~ Peter S. Beagle
Love is easily killed.
~ Oscar Wilde
Love is cruel as the grave.
~ Ouida
As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Wail not too wildly for expiring Love: The Love that dies was never quite alive.
~ Richard B. Garnett
The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Keep your love, I have no use for it anymore.
~ Richelle Mead
Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.
~ Rick Riordan
Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?
~ Robert Browning
What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.
~ Robert Jordan
She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.
~ Robert Jordan
Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.
~ Robyn Hitchcock
I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.
~ Sam Worthington
I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death.
~ Sandra Cisneros
When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for us to lay our lives on the altar for what we believe.
~ Sarah-Patton Boyle
Love is loss combined with pain.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?
~ Shan Sa
Tell me, is it better to know love and have lost it or to have never known it at all? [Camulus]
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon