Quotes About Loss

Even after she was gone, he passed her place each day: something white in a high window - not a face, but the white belly of a pigeon beating its wingsagainst the pane in the boarded-up house.

Sinto que há uma estranha eternidade naquilo que amámos e foi destruído.(I feel that there lies a strange eternity in that which we loved but has been destroyed.)

Loss is like a wind, it either carries you to a new destination or it traps you in an ocean of stagnation. You must quickly learn how to navigate the sail, for stagnation is death.

Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

Their world seemed made of little losses. she was always having to say goodbye, part with something. A brilliant sunset. A blossom. A sweet feeling.

After she was gone, I sheathed her sword at my belt, draped her cloak over my shoulders, carried her heart in my arms, and, somehow, went on.

Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had.

Nothing is lost that love remembers.

Death had marked his family with unbreakable black halos, until only two remained.

Then you know. You know what it's like to love someone like you love yourself and lose them.

They are dead. We are dead. It is over.

Whoever said it was better to have loved and lost was completely full of shit.

If you've ever lost someone that you love, and I say 'love' and not 'loved' because even when they're gone, you still love them, you know that never goes away, but your life changes.

You can't learn anything from losing someone you love. Any lesson you learn from that isn't a lesson. It's a compromise with life. A lie you tell yourself.

There are pieces of you that will always be with me.

If love was a lucky penny, shiny and unspoiled, secreted in a most unlikely place, then it's tarnished flipside was loss.

What is deeply felt is never lost.

Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn't true.

He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.

love canembellish its beginningsing its blossomingand engrave its eternitiesbut can never explain its loss.

Her death was a defining moment in my life. It felt like the brightest light in Gion Kobu had gone dark. Sadly, she was the last master of the musical tradition in which she had been trained. The form died with her.

Ricordo ancora dei momenti magnifici, in cui la famiglia era al completo...non immaginavo neppure lontanamente che da lì a breve quegli idilliaci intermezzi sarebbero finiti. Eppure presto accadde.

At that moment, I couldn't have agreed with her more. I would have given anything to exchange my life for his.

I looked at him and said, "I've died.