Quotes About Loss

Finally, on the fourth of November, when those he loved had left the room just for a moment—to grab coffee in the kitchen, the first time none of them were with him since the coma began—Morrie stopped breathing.

When he died, he took part of me with him . I was stuck after that

As usual, he saves his wife's for last. He leans on the cane and he looks at the headstone and he thinks about many things. Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.

You took a huge part of us with you, Chika, the best part, but it was yours to take, and I hope it will always be close to you.

Because there was a ghost involved, you may call this a ghost story. But what family isn't a ghost story? Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

When a colleague at Brandeis died suddenly of a heart attack, Morrie went to his funeral. He came home depressed. "What a waste," he said. "All those people saying those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it".

What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.

Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. Life has to end, she said. Love doesn't.

Al morir se pone fin a una vida, no a una relación personal.

Like a hidden grieving that rises to grab the heart, his soul was ambushed with old emotions, and his lips began to tremble and he was swept into the current of all that he had lost.

Fear is how you lose your life . . . a little bit at a time. . . . What we give to fear, we take away from . . . faith.

I still don't understand, Eddie whispered. What good came from your death? You lived, the Blue Man answered. But we barely knew each other. I might as well have been a stranger....Strangers, the Blue Man said, are just family you have yet to come to know.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times." ? Mitch Albom, For One More Day

He used the haunting phrase, "Alas for what has been lost.

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

The day he learned that he was terminally ill was the day he lost interest in his purchasing power.

Sometimes, when you're losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can.

Because there was a ghost involved, you may call this a ghost story. But what family isn't a ghost story? Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

Death ends a life, but not a relationship.

A man without memories is just a shell.

Bila kita diberi waktu tak terbatas, tidak ada lagi yang istimewa. Tanpa kehilangan atau pengorbanan, kita tidak bisa menghargai apa yang kita punya

I asked Morrie if he felt sorry for himself. Sometimes, in the mornings, he said. That's when I mourn. I feel around my body, I move my fingers and my hands - whatever I can still move - and I mourn what I've lost. I mourn the slow, insidious way in which I'm dying. But then I stop mourning.

His hair fell out, his face went gaunt as a skeleton.

What do you do when you lose a loved one too quickly? When you have no time to prepare before, suddenly, that soul is gone?