4,061 Quotes About Loss

Just the perfect peace of nothingness. That's what I believed.

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.

Repression. Her therapist, Dr. Solomon, loved the word. He'd say it slowly, letting it roll off his tongue. Sometimes he'd add a chin stroke for good measure. He always looked pleased when he did this, like he'd discovered the Caramilk secret or something.

Laine taped the last box shut. That was it, then: All of Gavin's belongings put away; some for charity, some for the dump, some to be saved for a happier 'one day' that Laine felt, right now, was as distant as the stars.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet.

For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.

,,The danger that arises to someone when a loveobject is “lost”—through death, or betrayal, or disappointment—isnot primarily the loss of that particular person or institution or ideal;the danger is to the person’s sense of himself, which depends on hissense of an ongoing internal attachment to his loved object.

It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.

I will miss you like I miss everything in these moth wing lives of ours, built inside each other’s dreams, out of things that go away.