Loss Quotes And Sayings

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“The real hell of this,” he told her, “is that you’re going to get through it.” 
– Gail Caldwell

“Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I’m feeling things at last. I’m feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.” 
– Gayle Forman

“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”
– German Motto

“The only world in which “defeat” exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what’s possible for us to achieve now.”
– Guy Finley

“How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?” 
– Gwenn Wright

“A human life is a story told by God.”
– Hans Christian Andersen

“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.” 
– Haruki Murakami

“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering.” 
– Helen Keller

“He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“No man can lose what he never had.”
– Izaak Walton

“Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don’t want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.”
– James Hillman 

“The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you’re faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.” 
– James Patterson

“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn’t go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That’s just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.” 
– Jandy Nelson

“I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.” 
– Jane Austen

“Time is such a waste of time to think about, because the longer you ponder it, the more of it you lose. And before you know it, you don’t know it, because you are nothing but dusty worm food.” 
– Jarod Kintz

“Why is the measure of love loss?” 
– Jeanette Winterson

“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never loses. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?” 
– Jeanette Winterson

“For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?”
– Jesus Christ 

“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?” 
– Jodi Picoult

“I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.” 
– Jodi Picoult

“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn’t get past something like that, you got through it.” 
– Jodi Picoult

“If you didn’t remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn’t?” 
– Jodi Picoult

“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?” 
– Jodi Picoult

“It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you’d been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn’t have to look for, didn’t have to prove anything to, didn’t have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.” 
– Jodi Picoult

“Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.” 
– Jodi Picoult

“Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?” 
– Jodi Picoult

“Only those who avoid love can avoid grief. The point is to learn from grief and remain vulnerable to love.”
– John Brantner

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” 
– John Green

“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.”
– John Taylor

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” 
– José N. Harris

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