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Quotes About Loss

When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.
~ F. Murray Abraham
It's no fun to lose, ... We haven't lost in a while and now we get to remember what it feels like. Everybody wants to be undefeated and that's what we wanted. There are no excuses.
~ Mark Richt
My mom lost her dad at a very young age, and has this sort of belief system of, you know, "If there's something that you want to do, if there's something that means a lot to you, do it now."
~ Emma Stone
The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity
~ Emily Dickinson
Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.
~ Frederic Raphael
Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life.
~ Marc Forster
When my husband died in 2006, I didnt want to be Mitzi Gaynor anymore.
~ Mitzi Gaynor
Allison Winn Scotch is the real deal and The Department of Lost and Found is one you absolutely won't want to miss.
~ Johanna Edwards
Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone.
~ Lesley Stahl
In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes.
~ Lurlene McDaniel
Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.
~ Mark Helprin
It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.
~ Robert Goolrick
People die and people cry people want me dead.
~ Tupac Shakur
Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them
~ Charles Bukowski
If a fighter suffers defeat, especially in a fight he feels he won, it will never leave his mind. He is always going to want to avenge that loss.
~ Chris Eubank, Jr.
Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.
~ Dennis Lehane
It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.
~ Edward Gibbon
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
~ Golda Meir
I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. "Put your tooth under the pillow." I was like "Why does someone want my teeth?".
~ Guillermo del Toro
I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don't want to.
~ Henry Rollins
A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.
~ Johnny Thunders
Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime.
~ William Eggleston