4,061 Quotes About Loss

Without pain we cannot realize the opportunities we are given.

The perpetual Tristeza growning within youThe rich Tristeza of the smell of rosesThe lonesome Tristeza of you closerThe painful Tristeza of my wordsThe sacred Tristeza of our sexThe illuminated Tristeza of a dreamThe beautiful Tristeza of Patricia.

I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.

What of the faith, the almost unthinking passion he had once felt? He could barely remember it. That part of his life had passed quickly, his faith transforming from a burning flame into a comfortable warmth.

In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence—wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.

It is life and death,Life like you are leftWith a phantom limb:To lose your wifeOr your best friend- With the right leg gone -Attempting to feel,A tempting to mend- Or an arm stretched strong -Our tendencies to steal,Thence heal the way it ends;Prolonging as we reach back again,But then again,So far? See, to reject what is real,My love, has beenOur greatest sin

Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul; dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor.

It’s incredible how small the English language gets when you’re trying to make it fix something.

And the terrible thing, the terrible thing is, but the good thing too, the saving grace, is that if something happened to one of us--excuse me for saying this--but if something happened to one of us tomorrow, I think the other one, the other person, would grieve for a while, you know, but then the surviving party would go out and love again, have someone else soon enough. All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory.