Quotes About Loss

Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.

it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.

I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.

most give way leaving empty spaces where people should be.

There was something about funerals. It made you see things better.

It's never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.

Well, we lost it, and that's all there is to that.

You look down in the mouth. You all right?" "Lost a woman." "You'll have others and lose them too.

Jim, did your father really blow his brains out because of your mother?" "Yeah. He was on the telephone. He told her he had a gun. He said, 'If you don't come back to me I'm going to kill myself. Will you come back to me?' And my mother said, 'No.' There was a shot and that was that." "What did your mother do?" "She hung up.

There was something about funerals. It made you see things better. A funeral a day and I'd be rich.

this will never leave me: that I had love and love died; a photo and a piece of tape is not much, I have learned late, but give me 14 days or 14 years, I will kill any man who would touch or take whatever's left.

I lost almost all the blood in my body in 1957

I am sad for the dead and I am sad for the living but not for my 5 cats

I felt better when everything was in disorder. It will take me some months to get back to normal: I can't even find a roach to commune with. I have lost my rhythm. I can't sleep. I can't eat. I have been robbed of my filth.

I'd listen to the radio and look at the walls and get drunk enough to almost forget her but then she would return once again.

It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When she came back we didn't sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in the dark, smoking cigarettes, and when we went to sleep, I didn't put my feet on her body or she on mine like we used to. We slept without touching. We had both been robbed.

Jim, did your father really blow his brains out because of your mother? Yeah.He was on the telephone.He told her he had a gun.He said, If you don't come back to me I'm going to kill myself. Will you come back to me?´ And my mother said, No. There was a shot and that was that. What did your mother do? She hung up. All right, I'll see you tonight buddy.

The parents of rich kids tended to be more patriotic because they had more to lose if the country went under.

is this how it works? in this room the hours of love still make shadows. when you left you took almost everything.

the most immense thing about beauty is finding it gone.

people so tired mutilated either by love or no love.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Son-of-a-bitch, I thought, one minute I've got two women and the next I've got none.

one day the goldfish died, all five of them, they floated on the water, on their sides, their eyes still open, and when my father got home he threw them to the cat there on the kitchen floor and we watched as my mother smiled