Loss Quotes

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

Utterly, irrevocably, lost

A strange sense of loss came over him. He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that...

LXXIXWhen I die, I want your hands on my eyes.I want the light and wheat of your beloved hands to pa...

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of glo...

Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It...

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has inc...

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing ...

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the ...

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are ...

There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, prolifera...

Do you love him?" Danica dared to ask, referring ro the dark elf.Catti-brie blushed, and really had ...

It is a defeat of the spirit to learn one's arrogance causes such loss and pain. Pride invites you t...

At first I thought he was laughing because his shoulders were shaking, but then he put his palms on ...

She felt the intimate loss of who was meant to become.

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the stran...

they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of...

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

When I was a boy my grandfather died, and he was a sculptor. He was also a very kind man who had a l...

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding ...

I can't see the logic in medicating a grieving person like there was something wrong with her, and y...

Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.

Her strategy for honoring the dead had always been to take action - solve the mystery, punish the cr...

Gone. and it was completely. Everyone I'd every known, every place I'd ever been. My Mother. My fath...

Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perh...

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss ca...

This is one of the great human mysteries: why do works of art about bad things such as loss and depr...

...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm ...

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without some...

Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) it’s when we’re busy, distracted...

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the ...

When you pray for what you most want in the world, its opposite comes along with it. I was given a w...

This is what loss was, what death was: an escape into the luminous wave-forms, into the ineffable sp...

Sardar Harbans Singh passed away peacefully in a wicker rocking-chair in a Srinigar garden of spring...

Also – for there had been more than a few migrants aboard, yes, quite a quantity of wives who had be...

When's something difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder- if no...

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how grues...

Mid-Term BreakI sat all morning in the college sick bayCounting bells knelling classes to a close.At...

I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he'd ever ...

An Indian’s wealth   Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save.

What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus ha...

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next ti...

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose yo...

Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to t...

Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight.

What you love, you must love all the harder because someday it will be gone.

Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is...

At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come ba...

...she did remember on time when she got her period, sliding open the cupboard under the bathroom si...

The best part, though, was hearing my mother's voice. It was like having her again, coming out from ...

Now the two of them rode silently toward town, both lost in their own thoughts. Their way took them ...

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back...

Bella: How could I live with myself when it’s my fault? None of you should be risking yourselves for...

I said out loud, "Damn you for saving yourself. How come you left me with nothing but to love you an...

Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humm...

If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the econo...

This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music:...

Since I’ve been home I’ve been trying hard to mend my relationship with my mother. Asking her to do ...

Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for...

The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only P...

That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ...

Haymitch isn't thinking of arenas, but something else. "Johanna's back in the hospital."I assumed Jo...

She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You...

That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you d...

I want to tell the rebels that I am alive. That I'm right here in District Eight, where the Capitol ...

The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, rac...

By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by b...

I'm sorry, I didn't mean--""To speak of it?" asked the K'mir. Diane nodded. "You have to, just to bl...

think when it's all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It's like a kaleidoscope of memori...

Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've pas...

She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?''I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. An...

Tiffany found her mind filling up with an invisible gray mist, and in that thought there was nothing...

Tiffany thought of the little spot in the woods where Granny Weatherwax lay. Remembered. And knew th...

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a m...

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefi...

You can't go home again

You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back...

Come up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back a...

On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of th...

God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who ga...

In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard ...

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helpl...

I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath th...

COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!”In the deep valley, in the twilight, the apple trees were on the eve of...

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he w...

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her ag...

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like s...

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't...

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot...

Your image has receded till it is like the thinnest shadow of the old moon... a thin silver edge app...

The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was ...

The lost glove is happy.

His heart missed a beat and never regretted the lovely loss.

The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehen...