Quotes About Loss

His wits have gone dark as his eyes

The girls do not even have that much, he thought. Their wolves might have kept them safe, but Lady is dead and Nymeria's lost, they're all alone.

In Sansa's dreams, her children looked just like the brothers she had lost. Sometimes there was even a girl who looked like Arya.

I wonder where my big, black man has gone; Oh, I wonder where my big, black man has gone. Has he done got faded an' left me all alone?

Revolutions… have put one half of France in mourning for the other.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within a vast energy-broth, but then we named them, and loved them, and, in this way, brought them forth. And now we must lose them.

When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.

It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.

Hell, Madame, is to love no longer.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

Il y a donc des amours pareils à ces fruits de la Mer Morte qui ne vous laissent à la bouche qu'un goût de cendre impérissable.

Now the last person who remembered me as a child is gone, I told myself. And only then did I burst into sobs, like a child.

The history of the family can be described through the abandonment of several children. The history of the world, too.

If the destination was a broken heart, at least she would always have the memory of the journey.

FOREVER. Eighteen years is a long way from forever. He had so much life ahead of him. And it's not as if he died in isolation. The dreams of all of the people who loved him died with him. His parents might learn to cope with his loss, but they will never recover.

we can suffer economic loss and see it as an opportunity for a spiritual transformation.

I still did not cry. I tried not to think of her. I had loved her too much, too intensely. In danger all the time, we had clung to one another. We had lived several lifetimes in our years together. Now she was gone." - Gerald Green, Holocaust

After her [Grandma's] death in the great flu epidemic of 1918, Grandpa had remarried a woman remembered without warmth by everyone in the family.

I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until it became a part of who I am.