LOSS QUOTES III

quotations about loss

We never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.

GAIL CALDWELL

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship


The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.

JAMES PATTERSON

Angel

Tags: James Patterson


Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Kafka on the Shore


That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more:
Too common! Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.

ALFRED TENNYSON

"In Memoriam A.H.H."


Think not that I have come in quest of common flowers; but rather to bemoan the loss of one whose scent has vanished from the air.

MURASAKI SHIKIBU

The Tale of Genji


A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Essays

Tags: Michel de Montaigne


In loss itself
I find assuagement:
having lost the treasure,
I've nothing to fear.

JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ

"Disillusionment", A Sor Juana Anthology


Even loss can be a profit.

PERSIAN PROVERB


We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Heavenly Fire

Tags: Cassandra Clare


Sometimes, there was no getting over it. Sometimes, you lived with the empty place inside of you until you imploded on it, loss as singularity, or until the empty place expanded and hollowed out the rest of you so thoroughly you became the walking dead, a ghost in your own life.

CAITLIN KITTREDGE

Bone Gods


Regret is ... an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.

GERALD LAWSON SITTSER

A Grace Disguised

Tags: Gerald Lawson Sittser


We gain and lose by the same means.

ROMAN PROVERB


Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

GREGORY MAGUIRE

Wicked


What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

SUZANNE COLLINS

Mockingjay

Tags: Suzanne Collins


It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Fight Club

Tags: Chuck Palahniuk


Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

MARK SLOUKA

God's Fool


One man's loss is another man's gain.

ENGLISH PROVERB

Tags: English proverbs


Only loss teaches us about the value of things.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit

Tags: Arthur Schopenhauer


I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone -- you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

ALYSON NOEL

Evermore

Tags: Alyson Noel


Eventually, everything goes away.

ELIZABETH GILBERT

Eat, Pray, Love