Quotes About Loss

It almost contradicts itself, " she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.

We both know that pain comes for us all. It's almost a relief. Because if all of us are going to someday lose the people we love most, or be lost by them, then what is there to do but live?

And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.

Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon's knife.

We have so much to learn from a fallen teardrop which is wiped away from our cheek…never to be felt again

There is only one thing in this world worse than dying and that's watching someone you love die instead—you feel their pain with no final solace.

I've reached the vanishing point without you.Here my heartache begins with your paintrying to find an unborn startin this fatal disappearanceFrom the poem 'Me with the Vanishing Point

My own love was never mine and now I don't even have a dream of loving again.

Seeing him was a sucker punch to the gut. Once upon a time he'd loved her. And then when he'd stopped, it wasn't really his fault.

No parent should have to bury their child.

Had she learned to feel again, only to have to feel this? Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?

But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a single earring when the other half of the pair was lost

At least, when there's fear, there's some human part left in you. Once that's gone, though, there is nothing.

i was musicbut you had your ears cut off

I have to admit. Saying goodbye—leaving Bonnie. Was one of the hardest things I've ever done in my entire life. It actually hurt…

I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart.""More than him has done that, " said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...

What can we expect from an empty shell Where many hearts of pearl once beat to dwell Waves fail to break hard layer's bond of loveWailing shore sends memoir to the sky above

To have loved, to have lost and to be so empty when love is forgotten and not shared is an empty heart that's always whispering "fill me"~bns

Dreaming of getting you I loosed everything Cheerfulness of smile And all the dreams of life

Faded is my heart.... Faded is my dream....Faded they may seem.... Never I scream!

Death drives desire.

I'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead

Every family is a ghost story.