Loss Quotes - Page 14

Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality

I had no intention of forsaking my wedding vows. I had strong morals and never could have imagined going against them. I was never even tempted to stray.

I didn’t want to get burned. I didn't want to be the other woman, but I wanted him with all my might.

You lose a child and you do understand each other's grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it's all over. Suddenly each of you is alone.

They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.

Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.

When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).

If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies-mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies." His voice was choked in his throat.

Grief, regret, pain, and of course anger. Another loss. And when you compare this one loss to the hundreds and maybe thousands that occur people stop thinking they matter. It does matter though. Every loss matters.

Rejection, though-it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

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

This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them; this is a language they know. They know what to do with`disease'. They know how to attach a doctor's medical descriptions to hope.

The loss of a loved one is like the loss of a part of oneself; an arm or a leg. At first, the pain is so physical that it is hard to ignore. The trauma is so intense that the mind finds it hard to cope with the loss. With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.

There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since my first meeting with him as a playful little ball of black fluff ten years earlier, passed through my mind. From that moment on, I came to live within an insulated part of myself.

Rejection is one of the worse forms of pain. Loss is the worst. Grief haunts until you allow yourself to move on.

Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am!

If you lose someone, you feel a loss, then after a while you fill in the hole in your life and the loss gradually gets smaller and smaller and eventually goes away. There's a point to the pain. There's a reason and a direction.

Noli me tangere,
noli me legere,
noli me videre,
noli me

We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.