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Quotes About Loss

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Only the young die good.
~ Oliver Herford
His fortune is shipwrecked...
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1786
How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?
~ Ishmael Beah
Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.
~ Ishmael Beah
Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even though I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.
~ Ishmael Beah
Our innocence had been replaced by fear and we had become monsters. There was nothing we could do about it.
~ Ishmael Beah
Cuervos sobre la llanura sembrada de muertos, como en las viejas baladas.
~ Ismail Kadare
Sve je u meni mrtvo; tako mi je dobro. Ne dopire do mene zvuk, umro mi je ocinji vid. Sve je ostalo za velikom kapijom koja se zatvorila muklo za mnom. Izgubio sam sve i nisam vise covjek nego nemirna besana misao koja je potonula i pricutala se na dubokom dnu, a nada mnom su kao neprozirne zelene mase voda, mir, daljina i zaborav.
~ Ivo Andri?
Tek jesen je pokazala kako su plitkog korena i kratkog veka bile moje obmane. I ne samo jesen. Jelene je nestalo iz svih mojih godišnjih doba.
~ Ivo Andri?
Ona ih je sve zalu?ivala, jer su ludi ro?eni, varala, jer su želeli da budu prevareni, i na kraju, uzimala im samo ono što su i ina?e bili rešeni da bace i izgube.
~ Ivo Andri?
And then the death will come. The great parting, but the least painful of all the goodbyes we ever knew. For in death, only one shall grieve. And so far we have always, at every parting, grieved together.
~ Ivo Andric
People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
They say that you can never go home again. You look for everything to be the same and when you find that things have changed, you are left reeling, crestfallen and dazed.
~ J. Maarten Troost
What am I supposed to do without you?" "Live. That's all. Just live." "I don't know if I know how." "You'll figure it out," I said, and curled up against him. There were two hours left before four o'clock. And in those two hours, we lived a lifetime.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
she had nothing now that the fantasy was gone.
~ J. R. Ward
The best of us grieve over the loss but do not dwell on it. Instead we draw from our inner strength to help us move on from our pain.
~ J. Thomas
Don't leave me again. God. God. Don't leave me again. I didn't Part of you did. He moved her back, and his eyes swarmed with emotion. Part of you left me, and I couldn't stand it.
~ J.D. Robb
Love can die. It can be killed, no matter how alive it was, it's not invulnerable. Mine's dead. It's dead and it's buried. I just want one thing more, and that's the chance to look him in the face and tell him he's nothing. If I can do that one thing, it'll be enough.
~ J.D. Robb
Because dead people don't get angry. They're dead.
~ J.D. Robb
Murder did that. Took lives, crushed others, changed still others forever.
~ J.D. Robb
The dead aren't the only victims.
~ J.D. Robb
Grief levels us. We go on, we do what's necessary, but there's a shadow on the heart.
~ J.D. Robb
It was death that brought me and Eve together. And as frothy as it sounds, there are times I feel as though that was when I took my first breath.
~ J.D. Robb