Quotes About Loss

You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really starting over. More like continuing without.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things will only break your heart.

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.

Sacrfice, the captain said. You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.

With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.

Lost love is still love.

but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.

Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.

I shot you, all right, he said, and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too. What? I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.

That's the thing when people leave us too suddenly, isn't it? We always have so many questions.

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

Every loss leaves a hole in your heart.

You don't miss things. You miss people.

This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.

But ask yourself this: Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back. What if you got it back?

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.

Maybe laughter after someone dies is the way we tell ourselves that they are still alive in some way. Or that we are.

And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone.

What if I lose you? You can't lose your mother, Charley.

So often, we push away the voices closest to us. But once they're gone, we reach for them.