4,061 Quotes About Loss

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter,the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands,the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

Your memory feels like home to me.So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.

Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

Every moment is a gift, but when the moment passes, the gift is not gone. The real gift is the life and spirit within another. That life is everywhere around us. It gets concentrated in a certain place and we call that a ‘loved one’. But if the ‘loved one’ has to journey somewhere, we haven’t lost the gift of love or life. It swirls around and shows itself to us in a million ways.

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.