Loss Quotes - Page 8

Scars prove that you're still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving.

...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.

And there was time enough-or so it seemed-for all the cherries atop all the ice-cream sundaes in all the world to fall from their frozen perches, as the heat of a treasure chest summer melted them away. Down and down into the cups of what it would all become, trusting on the ingredients, and how much love had been used to unite them.

Separation

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.

Why love what you will lose?
There is nothing else to love.

I held a jewel in my fingers
And went to sleep.
The day was warm, and winds were prosy;
I said: "'T will keep."

I woke and chid my honest fingers, -
The gem was gone;
And now an amethyst remembrance
Is all I own.

I heard of a man
who says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
women give themselves to him.

If I am dumb beside your body
while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips
it is because I hear a man climb stairs
and clear his throat outside our door.

One cannot make bargains for blisses
Or catch them like fishes in nets
And sometimes the things that life misses
Help more than the things that it gets.

We wrote our names in the sand
You crossed mine out: I can't get
back to the way I was.

...always-
the sharp,
plaintive edge
on the rim
of the spoon
of my giving.
(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')

the inlet

our friend looks as he did
when we first knew him,
and until I wake I believe
I will die of grief, for I know
that this boy grew into a man
who was a faithful friend
who died.

There’s a lamentation in the flutter of your lash.

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

We are strengthening by different experiences in life;
Sad times, happy moments.
Poverty, riches.
Failure, success.
Troubles, good times.
Losing, winning.

In the game of life;
Sometimes we win,
Sometimes we loss,
Either ways, we should always keep playing.

May you comfort and healing.

With the ambitions, to seize the opportunity to win is your big loss.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
but a tiny core of stillness in the heart
like the eye of a violet.

You've left me with a kaleidoscope of broken smiles and shattered dreams.

When love dies, the heart's ashes do not leave on the wind - they rest on the mantelpiece of the soul, darkening the sunrise we once saw to be beautiful.