Quotes About Loss

Gabito would say later that he had no memory of his mother. She had left him before he could retain any memories at all.

These memories of happiness are fleeting things, reflections in a stream, glimpsed all broken for a second and then swept away in the current of grief that is our life now. I can't say that I ever feel what it felt like then, when I was happy. But sometimes something will touch the place where that feeling was, a touch as slight and swift as the brush of a moth's wing in the dark.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

It is natural to want to forget, Anna, when everyday is a brimful of sadness. But those souls also forgot those that they had loved. You do not want that, surely? I have heard some preach that God wants us to forget the dead, but I cannot believe so. I think He gives us precious recollections so that we may not be parted entirely from those He has given us to love. You must cherish your memories of your babes, Anna, until you see them again in Heaven.

the greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person.

the surfeit of loss in my life has convinced me it will be easier to be grieved for than to grieve." Bethia as an old woman about to die p 257

He did not turn. Embracing his sister, he stepped off the bank, onto the ice. He walked out into the centre, where the ice was thin. His sister's head lay on his shoulder. They stood there for a moment, as the ice groaned and cracked. Then it gave way.

I don't see her anymore. We don't even go through the motions. Ozren had been right about one thing: some stories just don't have happy endings.

Good yield does not come without suffering, it does not come without struggle, and toil, and yes, loss.

Basically, I'm interested in friendship, sex and death.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

What you get free costs too much.

Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee.

The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul were fled.

Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time.

Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved.

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.

Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men.

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

When you're fifty, you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.