Loss Quotes

I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.

Louise Erdrich

I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.

Loretta Ellsworth

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Anne Roiphe

And then there's the truth beyond that, sitting like an old rock under green creek water: none of these things matter. Right now, in this moment, we have love. We have it in the sound of my daughter's laugher, in Mom's and Georgia's locked fingers, in the warm pressure of J.T.'s hand. It will leave, and it will come again, and when it does I'll give up everything and take it. Just like an addict. Like dry grass in new rain. It's not something I'm proud of necessarily. Then again, maybe I am.

Katie Crouch

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

Susan Abulhawa

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

Kelley Armstrong

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.

Ashly Lorenzana

How we respond to grief can shape our present

KC Rhoads

How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?

Dee Remy

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.

Haruki Murakami

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually wracked with pain.

Philip Pullman

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.

Vicki Harrison

Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness

Jocelyn Murray

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

Audrey Niffenegger

What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.

Ron Rash

If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.

Alyson Richman

Why is the measure of love loss?

Jeanette Winterson

Everything worth having can be carried in your heart.

Spoken by pirate captain Raider

A small profit it better than a big loss

Ron Rash

Blazing? Droplets of thoughts can soothe it all. Don't feel depleted. Bask in the residue. That remains!

Deeba Salim Irfan