Quotes About Loss

I drew that memory of my father on the roof...I drew him in all the small and quiet ways I had never thought to draw him before. And it seemed to me that I was closer to him during those early months of his absence than at any other time of my life.

I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome.

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

that the creature I loved was lying somewhere in a hole underground, to all intents and purposes dead until dark.

Grief was boring. This was a shallow thought about a deep subject, but it was a valid observation.

Then my great-grandfather was gone before I could ask him which vampire he meant.

The problem with living without the person you can't live without is eventually realizing you can live without them.

Lizbeth," she said, and wrapped me in a hug, held me close and tight. "I am so glad to see you. I heard you had a bad time. I'm sorry about Tarken. And Galilee." Mom held me away from her, looked into my eyes. She rued what I'd become

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

My father was a trader and my mum was a teacher but she was laid to rest when I was 14, which was really hard for all of us.

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives.

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina.

I do not think direct experience is always necessary to act, but I believe that sometimes you have to have had the real experience to act certain roles. One of those was losing your family member. I was not being able to imagine how sad that could be.

I can't speak for the other people whose children have died, but I can speak for my family and the other members of Gold Star Families for Peace. We believe we're honoring our children by working for peace.

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

I think when we lose somebody, when we interact with those things that they also loved - like, you listen to their favorite music, or you read their favorite books - it's just a way to get in touch with them and your memories of them.

When memories fade, can one ever really return home?

My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they're dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

He was an amazing father. I clutched my memories of him to my heart for so long, but he's a part of the world.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.