Quotes About Loss

Death was like that, casual with its cruelty.

This year in sowing too early I lost (the Lord being the cause thereof, but that the instrument wherewith it pleased him to work)… the sum of £10 at least, so exceeding full was my barley with charlock, in all likelihood by means of that instrumental cause, the Lord my God… being without doubt the efficient cause thereof.12

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

It all began to seem unreal, the chairs and the waiting and the dead girl at home in the closet.

The boy is loved. The loved one suffers. All loved ones suffer. Love is not enough to prevent this. Love is not enough. Love is enough. The thing that you wished for. Was this it?

Charley looked like someone from a Greek play, Electra, or Cassandra. She looked like someone had just set her favorite city on fire.

It's the dying that makes the living matter.

Drinkers hate to lose one of the gang. It's an implied threat that maybe they might be next.

She leaped into widowhood with glee.

Dead children do not give us memories, they give us dreams." Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking   I

The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.

You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "And when you've lost everything-" Her facade began to crumble, and her voice broke, but she made herself carry on. "When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

All life includes loss. It's taken me many, many years to learn to deal with that, and I don't expect I'll ever be fully resigned to it. But that doesn't mean we have to turn away from the world, or stop striving for the best that we can do and be. We owe that much to ourselves, at least, and we deserve whatever measure of good may come of it.

You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the saddest kind of blues is for them that's had everything they ever wanted and has lost it, and knows it won't come back no more. Ain't no sufferin' in this world worse than that; and that's the blue we call 'I Had It But It's All Gone Now.

All life includes loss. It's taken me many, many years to learn to deal with that, and I don't expect I'll ever be fully resigned to it. But that doesn't mean we have to turn away from the world, or stop striving for the best that we can do and be. We owe that much to ourselves, at least, and we deserve whatever measure of good may come of it.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

a sadness in living beyond extinction,

post mortem triste

Los niños aprenden algo más. De vez en cuando los maestros tienen que explicarles que uno de los Compañeros de Libro no podrá volver a acudir, que esa persona ha muerto. Los niños asimilan así a una edad muy temprana que la vida tiene sus ritmos y sus ciclos, y que incluso las personas cercanas a ellos forman parte de ese ciclo.

La salud proporciona una libertad que muy pocos valoran hasta que la pierden

Sa sultanijom je nestalo jedino bi?e na svijetu koje joj je moglo nametnuti svoj zakon...

našla je u kavezu mrtvu sjenicu, uginula je od hladno?e...Sa njom odlazi još malo od harvija....brani se od pomisli da je to predzank, no ne može to da zaboravi: na istoku ljudi paze na takve stvari. Zejnila zabrinjava ta djevoj?ica - u tom uzrastu djeca su tako osjetljiva.

With all of us nursing you— Must you still prolong the agony of life? While I, having lost my hold on the tremendous Faith, Having divested myself of purity and suchlike humble items, Now walk in the sombre bluish world of the Asura. --- Silent Wail

Stirred...the fur-toothed graves of young boys...a thousand slain in the time it would take to do love with a pretty girl or think of a new God.