Quotes About Loss

James Patterson, First Love

I loved you without knowing it, and I looked for your memory.In empty houses I entered with a lantern to steal your portrait

Fear no more as long as her memory surrounds you like a ghost…cry no more as long as she weeps for you like a willow.

She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory--the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name.

I am taking this in, slowly, Taking it into my body.This grief. How slowThe body is to realizeYou are never coming back.

The extravagant cost of staying is watching others leave.-Commitment Defined

The greatest tragedy is not death but a life without love

...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ...

Nothing is left of meEach time I see her

I loved him, but he didn't want me anymore.I suffered, and he laughed at my umanity.This desire will be my end.

The death has an only color.

I didn't know what darkness was until I lost you

I don't believe in coincidence or fateBut I know one thing for sureYour face was meant to beBurned into the deepest reachesOf my blackest memories.

Love is fate that ends in tragedy.

Everytime I hold you is the last time I hold you, I've known that since the very first time.

When you adapt to someone, they become a part of your routine, a part of you. And when they're taken away, you feel a bit lost. No matter how much you think it won't affect your life, it does.

I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee—

You love meand love me notyour love is an arm of clockjoining hands with mineonly to leave me again

My love translated sounds like a dead language.

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

I wasn't dying alone. My beloved was dying with me.

once you're gone, you made me feel nothing as if you were my emotions and you took it away from me.

from the day you left I should've seen that life wasn't all its cracked up to be

You broke my heart.I fell for you and you broke my heart.Period, done, end of story.