4,061 Quotes About Loss

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.

you don't lose a personlike a set of keys because you don't find them againand you can still get to where you're going.

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

Every loss creates a void. If you try to fill it, you will fill it with garbage. If you let time fill it, it will be filled with normal stuff. If you don't let it fill, God will call out to you through it. Then you will begin the journey to find Him.

I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.

No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!"And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.

Listen, Harper. I realize how hard this is for you."A flash of anger heats up in my chest. She doesn't understand. She can't. If she did, she'd leave me alone instead of trying to force me to talk about this.

have you everhearda black woman weep over her skinmurdered child.it is the splitting of atoms.it is billionsofvoices screaming their children’s namesthroughher death wail.–– trayvon martin ii

It's only when we're surrounded by sadness do we realize we were once happy all along.