Loss Quotes And Sayings
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“Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.”
– Ovid
“When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.”
– Pat Schweibert
“When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you’re going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life… it’s a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.”
– Patrick Swayze
“I have loved and lost in so many different ways. And I have died endless deaths… So when I ask myself, the question today, who am I? My answer is…I do not know.”
– Patti Roberts
“It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you’ve accepted that someone is out of your life, that you’ve grieved and it’s over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you’ve lost that person all over again.”
– Rachel Hawkins
“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
– Richard Adams
“It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.”
– Rob Sheffield
“What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.”
– Rob Thomas
“I know that it’s easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.”
– Robert Goolrick
“If you don’t receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”
– Robert Goolrick
“There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven’t had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.”
– Robert Goolrick
“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.”
– Robert Ingersoll
“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.”
– Robert Southey
“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!”
– Roman Payne
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
– Rumi
“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.”
– Samuel Butler
“His leaving had been like snipping off the end of a rope – leaving two unraveling strands.”
– Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
“Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I’m heavy, like there’s to much gravity on my heart.”
– Sarah Ockler
“Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.”
– Shakti Gawain
“Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?”
– Susan Gordon Lydon
“Anyone? On Snow’s visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. “Convince me,” Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta’s life in limbo, I finally did. And In doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me.”
– Suzanne Collins
“The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.”
– Suzanne Collins
“The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.”
– Syrus
“Tonight I want to stand on the side of a cliff and look down, dare the wind to gust and knock me off. Everyone thinks that falling to your death is the worst thing that can happen. But that’s a lie. The worst thing is to be alive for no reason.”
– Tammara Webber
“and it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you are bold with unknowing, you are ready to explore.”
– Terra Elan McVoy
“Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity. ”
– Terri Guillemets
“And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it’s gone.”
– Terry Pratchett
“The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step toward repairing our loss.”
– Thomas A. Kempis
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
– Thomas Campbell, “Hallowed Ground”
“You can’t go home again”
– Thomas Wolfe
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