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Quotes About Loss

Dispose of everything that was lost. There's no time to dream about something that won't come back. I must look forward. Forward…
~ Tite Kubo
It is not frightening to know misfortune. What is frightening is to know lost happiness will never come back again.
~ Tite Kubo
It's the same for those who die and those that survive both are sad as the other
~ Tite Kubo
When I die and go over there, is it alright if I carry you around one more time?" - Sado Yasutora
~ Tite Kubo
A petal falling, never to bloom again A petal in flames, full of beauty
~ Tite Kubo
Rangiku…I couldn't do it. I couldn't get back what he took from you. Oh.. I'm so glad I got to tell you I was sorry.
~ Tite Kubo
They're all moving forward. Neither Shuhei nor Renji were at the company barracks. They're probably somewhere sharpening their skills right now. I should be too. You're gone, but you didn't leave anything to remember you by. I never liked that about you. But… if you had left something behind…I probably wouldn't have been able to move on. You probably knew that about me. Thanks, Gin. I always liked that about you.
~ Tite Kubo
Do you know why Hollows have holes in their chests?" "What're you talking about?" "They lose their center, their heart, from the pain of not being saved by a soul reaper, and a hole appears. That is certainly true. But where does that heart go? Their lost heart…becomes a mask. Not just the mask. A Hollow's unique appearance…their unique individual abilities…are all made from the heart ripped away from them.
~ Tite Kubo
I just keep practicing saying goodbye to you
~ Tite Kubo
Corro para obter tudo aquilo que perdi. Sangue, carne, ossos e algo mais.
~ Tite Kubo
They'll die, and then they'll be dead.
~ Tobias Wolff
People left one another, and got left, every day. It was a terrible thing. But it happened and people survived, as they survived worse things.
~ Tobias Wolff
The truth was that when you got married you had to give up one thing after another. It never ended. You had to give up your life—the special one that you were meant to have—and lead some middle kind of life that went where neither of you had ever thought of going, or wanted to go. And you never knew what was happening. You gave up your life and didn't even know it.
~ Tobias Wolff
Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?
~ Tom Clancy
The dead were gone and didn't know or care what they left behind.. If the dead still lived on the surface of this earth then it was in the minds of those who remembered them...
~ Tom Clancy
Brian had been killed the year before on a Campus black op in Libya. Dom had been there, he'd held his brother in his arms as he died, and then Dominic returned to The Campus, hell-bent on doing the hard, dangerous work that he believed in.
~ Tom Clancy
PIerre tried to work up a stormy heart of romantic loss about breaking up with Rebecca. It gave him license to drink and brood with hard eyes, which he found interesting.
~ Tom Drury
Gain cannot be made without loss to someone else.
~ Tom Holland
I remember hearing that one very small allied contingent from a non-Greek city somewhere in the far south of Sicily had been completely wiped out except for a single man, and that for days afterwards he wandered round the camp looking completely lost, since there was no one left alive who could speak his language. I knew how he felt.
~ Tom Holt
Phaedra] wasn't perfect, by any stretch of the imagination, but I would willingly have trade all my prizes in the Festivals, even the prize for the Demes, just to have known her a little better.
~ Tom Holt
Because it was just too creepy to consider the alternative: nothing changing at all, everything shrinking into the sad belated recognition that the best days had come and gone without her even realizing it.
~ Tom Perrotta
the cause of what they called the "Sudden Departure" remained unknown
~ Tom Perrotta
she remained unreconciled to the loss of her electric toothbrush. She'd pined for it for weeks before realizing that it was more than the sensation of a clean mouth that she missed—it was her marriage, all those years of mindless domestic happiness, long, crowded days that culminated with her and Kevin standing side by side in front of the dual sinks, battery-operated wands buzzing in their hands, their mouths full of minty froth.
~ Tom Perrotta
the world she'd been raised to live in no longer existed.
~ Tom Perrotta