Loss Quotes

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!

~ Mira Bartok

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.

~ Marian Keyes

No matter how hard it is to see kid tears, grown-up tears are worse to watch.

~ L M Bryski

We used to laugh and engage in endless banter. We loved, shared secrets, cared deeply, our burdens felt lighter. To be estranged from you doesn't feel lonely; it's EXILE

~ Evy Michaels

He won't remember any of this, he's too young and it's too painful. Children are wonderfully self-preserving. They filter memory, cleanse and sanitise it, unless it's too awful to renounce. And this isn't. Or is it? These gummy spots of time that inextricably adhere when so much more is erased, how do we account for their tenacity?

~ Rick Gekoski

Life goes on, whether you like it or not. I just wished it could lurch forward. Time is the best doctor, they say, and that’s bullshit, because from certain pains you can never heal. They keep screaming inside of you till eventually you get used to the noise and can hear again the life outside, but they are always there, aching, clawing at your soul.

~ Gaia B. Amman

We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find out interest in life returning to us.

~ L.m. Montgomery

There is only one thing in this world worse than dying and that’s watching someone you love die instead—you feel their pain with no final solace.

~ Caroline George

Did you say all that you meant toBefore the curtain closed?Or did you feel so much moreThan we'll ever know?You were an amazing person,One of the very best.You were here for part of my story,I wish you could hear the rest.I miss your smile most,The smile you had for all.Now I can only see itIn pictures on the wall.

~ Margo T. Rose

Raw anguish slithers through my brittle bones as the deathly call rots the air. Who murdered you old friend? The forest has no words to identify the hand, only erratic echo.

~ H.s. Crow

My heart is shattered, an all that's left are jagged shards.

~ Christina Baker Kline

Love does not always end well.

~ Rachel L. Schade

But love and pain are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes that's how we know we're alive.

~ Alex George

Why do I make room in my mind for such filth and nonsense? Do I hope that if feeling disguises itself as thought I shall feel less? Aren't all these notes the senseless writhings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it? Who still thinks there is some device (if only he could find it) which will make pain not to be pain. It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

~ C.s. Lewis

I believe that is what happened during this time in my life. God had other things for me, and he knew me so much better than I knew myself, so he moved me along to a new place. It certainly didn't lessen the pain at the time, but if I've learned anything along the way, it's that sometimes the best lessons are the ones that hurt the most.

~ Melanie Shankle

He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.

~ Michael Cunningham

I decide this is just A Bad Day. We all get them, because grief doesn't care how many years it's been.

~ Sara Barnard

You don't understand the power of loss when it first hits you like a baseball coming fast from an out-of-control pitcher....It's the third day after an injury when the pain really starts to throb.

~ Joan Bauer

At the end of your life, go out with a bruised-up, worn out heart that gave too much and loved too strongly and felt too fiercely.

~ Heidi Priebe

Think about it. There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss if there hadn't been love. You couldn't take my pain away without removing Bailey from my heart. I would rather have this pain now then never have known him. I just have to keep reminding myself of that.

~ Amy Harmon

We declared war on one another's heart. And once the bombs dropped, & wars of words began, all that was left were the ruins of what was once everything. Something once so beautiful, that even those dull ruins held it's own tragic beauty all their own.

~ Trevor Driggers

I guess it's the same way trees grow around the very vines that are killing them, so they're strangled and sustained all at once. After a long time, even pain can be a comfort.

~ Lauren Oliver

When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar.The mind can accommodate itself to almost anything, given time: pain, grief, loss, even the possibility that the dead talk to the living.

~ John Connolly

I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out.

~ Kristin Hannah

I think part of your attraction to him is the draw of the unknown, of being different, even special. He is so out of the ordinary that you feel pulled to that because you yourself are not so ordinary. You're alone. And sometimes the pain of so much loss is written across your face. You wear it like an adornment and that causes other people to wonder about you; they can't relate to you and what you've been through, but you can relate to him in his dark state.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Each person is alone with his pain, even when others share the same fate.

~ Dorthe Binkert

There is no pain in losing what you never had.

~ Dauglas Dauglas

Solace is what we must look for when the mind cannot bear the pain, the loss or the suffering that eventually touches every life and every endeavour; when longing does not come to fruition in a form we can recognize, when people we know and love disappear, when hope must take a different form than the one we have shaped for it.

~ David Whyte

Remember: God's grief at the unspeakable things we do to one another is beyond measuring, but so is His mercy. It might seem a terrible thing to say to people who've lost and suffered so much at the hands of hatred and violence. But true courage is not to hate our enemy, any more than to fight and kill him. To love him, to love in the teeth of his hate—that is real bravery. That ought to earn people m-m-medals.

~ Tony Hendra

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

~ Erin Morgenstern

Sitting on my bed with all these things I used to love but not loving them anymore, I just wanted to set them on fire. That's when I knew I was never going to be all right again.

~ Wendy Walker

A sad lesson that was mine to learn is that you can't lose what was never truly yours. Nor can you hold to things that simply do not wish to be held.

~ Trevor Driggers

He thought of what his mother always said whenever he cut himself, “Dimka, scars are time’s alphabet.” If so, his body was covered in poetry, his soul contained an entire encyclopedia of pain and loss... Kelly Oliver, WOLF: A Jessica James Mystery

~ Kelly Oliver

For a long time I spent my weary days in a fog of what might be and what has been and I guess you could say im still learning how to accept what is.

~ Nikki Rowe

This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was.

~ Jenim Dibie

Only Certain offered no enticements, for she knew nothing could ease the pain. Not books or photography or food. Not even love.

~ Billie Letts

One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted.

~ Criss Jami

A love where no one gets hurt doesn't exist.

~ Mika Yamamori

Winning cannot become your habit unless defeats have torn you apartand you sit in the battle field stitching back yourselfone piece at a timelaughing in the faces of all defeats.

~ Chetan M. Kumbhar

The wounds from that time have already become scabs.

~ Mika Yamamori