Quotes About Loss

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.

Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

Some things hit close to home with people, and it's going to be hard to tell someone who lost somebody on 9/11 that a 9/11 joke is funny.

I've just had some things to deal with, like family stuff, you know, lost my mom. Which is the most difficult stuff I've gone through. But it's just normal human stuff.

Some things you can never get back.

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.

I know I'm going to send my three kids off to college someday. I know my parents will pass away someday. It's one thing to say, 'I'll be able to deal with that day when it comes,' and it's another thing to find yourself at that day, dealing with it.

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?

If love disappear forever, a veil of sadness, falls over the valley of dried tears.

Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.

I hate tears, it makes it easy to forget someone.

I lost my family, " he says softly. The tone of his voice justifies my earlier regret. "If you have nothing to love, you have nothing to lose. Even your own life becomes meaningless.

The quickest way to get over something you loved and lost is to get another one.

She was supposed to be my salvation, and though she wouldn't be my ruin, the loss was going to thrust my life right back to what started my downward spiral in the first place.

I don't know how long we've sat here. All I do know is that my heart feels torn in two. Have I been here hours? Or minutes? Heartbreak is timeless".

Tasting what could have been—what should have been—didn't make it easier.

I'm curious about why there's so much honor given to death, when there is no honor in losing someone you love.

the only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.

Death is a misery.