Loss Quotes

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

I miss you every minute of every day. If I could miss you more than that, I would.

They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving.

For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess confidence in darkness? In the dark, you can't see.

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

A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life.
After they were gone?
That was all you thought about.
Day and night.

I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I couldn't escape you and I didn't want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leave this life slowly!

Though sorrow may impede my heart,
It is of great love to have known you.

If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn't have found a reason to let you go.

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss
and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.

You see how I try
To reach with words
What matters most
And how I fail.

People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines.

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.