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Quotes About Loss

No matter how long gone, you'll always be here. A heartbeat close. A whisper's near.
~ Jaci Burton
Life kept you busy fighting off troubles, and you looked up, and the best parts of your life were gone.
~ Jack Butler
You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive.
~ Jack Gilbert
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
~ Jack Kerouac
Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?
~ Jack Kerouac
It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.
~ Jack Kerouac
It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.
~ Jack Kerouac
Accept loss forever.
~ Jack Kerouac
And I go home having lost her love. And write this book.
~ Jack Kerouac
Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?...But cold morning would return, with clouds billowing out of Lightning Gorge like giant smoke, the lake below still cerulean neutral, and empty space the same as ever. O gnashing teeth of earth, where would it all lead to but to prove that the proving itself was nil...
~ Jack Kerouac
He was out to get back everything he'd lost; there was no end to his loss; this thing would drag on forever.
~ Jack Kerouac
I'm a fool, the new day rises on the world and on my foolish life: I'm a fool, I loved the blue dawns over racetracks and made a bet Ioway was sweet like its name, my heart went out to lonely sounds in the misty springtime night of wild sweet America in her powers, the wetness on the wire fence bugled me to belief, I stood on sandpiles with an open soul, I not only accept loss forever, I am made of loss - I am made of Cody, too -
~ Jack Kerouac
Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?…But
~ Jack Kerouac
Vinny's was the scene of suicide hookies.
~ Jack Kerouac
They'll eat your heart alive Every time.
~ Jack Kerouac
ve kimse ama kimse bilmiyor kimseye yaÅŸlanman?n periÅŸan süprüntülerinden baÅŸka ne olaca??n?; ve ben Neal Cassady'yi an?yorum ve an?yorum, hatta asla bulamad???m?z yaÅŸl? babas? Neal Cassady'yi; ve Neal Cassady'yi an?yorum. Neal Cassady'yi an?yorum.
~ Jack Kerouac
Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?…
~ Jack Kerouac
There was a sound of slapping When the angel stole come And the angel that had lost Lay back satisfied
~ Jack Kerouac
AIN'T NEVER NOBODY LOVED ME like I love myself, cept my mother and she's dead.
~ Jack Kerouac
Que sensação é essa, quando você está se afastando das pessoas e elas retrocedem na planície até você ver o espectro delas se dissolvendo? – é o vasto mundo nos engolindo, e é o adeus.
~ Jack Kerouac
Ordinarily the death of a cat means little to most men, a lot to fewer men, but to me, and that cat, it was exactly and no lie and sincerely like the death of my little brother - I loved Tyke with all my heart
~ Jack Kerouac
mind filled with work and a soul fortified with the knowledge of the inevitability of loss—and so goodbye sweet journal, adieu calm book, may the best hearts find you.
~ Jack Kerouac
One night my old man left the day's receipts settin on top of the safe, plumb forgot. What happened—a thief came in the night, acetylene torch and all, broke open the safe, riffled up the papers, kicked over a few chairs, and left. And that thousand dollars was settin right there on top of the safe, what do you know about that?
~ Jack Kerouac
I'm like a thinner younger Major Hoople who really had a small taste of early success but then lost it and came home to live off his mother and sister but goes on writing and acting like an author
~ Jack Kerouac