Quotes About Loss

We've been three people and an octopus all of my life, and now the octopus is gone.

Gotham may have lost its king and queen, Bruce, but it could still have its prince

One lesson of history is that every gain has its potential loss. The highest human achievements carry the danger of pride, and pride can lead blindly to disaster, just as failure can fortify the determination and so lead slowly towards triumph.

Tragedy takes all under regard.

I learned that the day "The Viper's Drag" slipped from between my fingers. But whatever might be lost or broken or forgotten is nothing compared to the miraculous rebirth that occurs every time the needle hits the groove. Here is Fats Waller Himself, not dead but present, so present that he overwhelms the well-ordered precincts of the living room. The sound sprawls. What vibrates here has more life than any room.

John said: "Your father is dead." And I said: "Thank God." John

And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they've lost, forever.

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

For the loss of those we have loved there is no alleviation but time and carefully and rationally chosen diversions such as will not cause our heart to reproach us.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

A whore who with icy shudders gives birth to a small dead child.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

every time you lose, you die a little, inside. Not all your organs...maybe just your liver.

When any of us experiences a loss, there comes a time in the grief process when we shake our fists skyward and yell, Why? It is the wrong question. The question we need to ask is "What is the journey and what is the growth that I must accomplish by suffering the loss of someone or something so meaningful to me?" It is the first step in the long and winding road that is to be our life's spiritual journey

Quando se fica velha a memória não é muito boa. - Ela suspirou. - Não é tão ruim esquecer coisas pequenas, é quando não se sabe o que entristece mais, se o outono, porque faz a gente se lembrar de si mesma, ou a primavera, porque se aproveita menos dela do que antes. A coisa mais triste na velhice é talvez não ser mais capaz de tolices. Tradução de Clarice Lispector

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Football is a sad game.

Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.

Of griefes (like Greeks on Ilion). Alas, what one survives To be my refuge?

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.