Quotes About Loss

Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]

O Fiend, whose talisman was that fatal symbol, wouldst thou leave nothing, whether in youth or age, for this poor sinner to revere?—such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.

She could no longer borrow from the future to help her through the present grief.

with a heart as full of reminiscences about her dead husband and children, and her dead friends of long ago, as a burial-ground is full of storied gravestones.

there is no earthly loneliness like that created by man's abandonment of what he once . . . considered secure and permanent.

During the forty-five months of World War II, the United States lost just under 1 percent of its adult male population; during the Civil War the casualty rate was somewhere between 4 and 5 percent; during the fourteen months of King Philip's War, Plymouth Colony lost close to 8 percent of its men.

In 1634, smallpox and influenza ravaged both the Indians and the English in the region. William Brewster, whose family had managed to survive the first terrible winter unscathed, lost two daughters, Fear and Patience, now married to Isaac Allerton and Thomas Prence, respectively.

Kazue's journals depict an absolutely sublime struggle, the struggle between an individual and the rest of the world. Kazue lost the battle, ended up completely alone, and died hungry for some measure of kindness from another person. Don't you think it's a sad story?

In this world there are people who prefer beauty after it's gone away or the dregs of a prosperity depleted.

was the first time I noticed that the men who embrace me, every single one of them, end up with an expression of emptiness when they are done, as if they have lost something. Maybe that is why I am always in search of a new man. Maybe that is why I am now a prostitute.

You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

Grief is not an excuse for depravity.

Funny how you don't realize what's missing until you've found it.

You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.

Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear. -Sonia

Would the Thunderhead grieve our passing, I wonder? And if so, would it grieve as the child who has lost a parent, or as the parent who could not save a petulant child from its own poor choices?

My friend, life can often be most brutal and unfair. Death is the same.

Hope is a terrible thing to lose.

He would have to adjust to a life without her, as well as a life without himself, for who was he now?

But whatever he was going to say, it leaked away with the last of his life. His head came to rest on Rowan`s shoulder, while all around them distant cries of agony filled the icy air.

It began the night we died on the Kamikaze.

Hope is a terrible thing to lose. Sometimes that wounded space gets filled with scar tissue, bitter, ugly, and angry.

Mi mayor deseo para la humanidad no es la paz ni la comodidad ni la alegría. Es que todavía sigamos muriendo un poco por dentro cada vez que seamos testigos de la muerte

Tyger Salazar had hurled himself out a thirty-nine-story window, leaving a terrible mess on the marble plaza below. His own parents were so annoyed by it, they didn't come to see him. But Rowan did. Rowan Damisch was just that kind of friend.