Quotes About Loss

And I can't cry, I don't even want to cry. My tears would never do justice to this loss.

Oh, how he missed his sister. Out of everyone, the legions of the dead, the numberless infinities of souls who had gone before, it was the loss of Ursula that had left him with the sorest heart.

Sometimes Teddy wondered if everyone had done well out of the war except for those who had fought in it.

Don't seek out elaborate metaphors," her English teacher had said of her school essays, but her mother's death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.

Ursula tried to remember what her own last words to her father had been. A nonchalant 'See you later,' she concluded. The final irony. 'We never know when it will be the last time,' she said...

Amelia looked at the eggs-like sickly, jaundiced eyes-and thought of her own eggs, a handful left, old shrivelled like musty dried fruit where once they must have been bursting toward the light-

It was the war, Juliet thought, remembering the photograph of the flamingo's creased wife, it has made refugees of us all.

Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing.

Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song being interrupted in full flight, was horrible to him.

One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. "One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs.

The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

Saudi Arabia has lost one of its dutiful sons, a leader among the most dear of its leaders and men.

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.

Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.

The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the people of this nation and their aspirations.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.