4,061 Quotes About Loss

...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.

Sometimes we are lucky to lose something or someone.

When I looked up to that vacant night sky I was struck by its sheer emptiness. There was no more moon, no more stars, no sign of the beautiful blanket of neon dandruff beyond.

Self-esteem, a rare quality, which describes people to only find solace once they identify the reason behind the loss, even if it meanspointing the finger at themselves.

And in her life, she found the perfect death, a way to drown out the pain, a way to let go.

Stress is a fickle glue. Our concern over Zach should have cemented us to each other. Instead, we drew our agony around ourselves like a force field. Inadequate protection at best. Distance-maker at worst. It was as if letting ourselves be vulnerable with each other would have made us brittle. We couldn't afford to crumble.

We functioned. We remained committed to each other. But how was it that we felt so disconnected when permanently connected by a shared tragedy?

We allowed each other the gift of separate approaches to the same crisis.

Ambiguous disappointment often accompanies ambiguous loss. For so long we disappointed each other--drawing close when the other needed space, keeping our distance when the other needed closeness, misreading each other's cues about whether an incident was comedic or catastrophic in the other's opinion, misjudging which of our children needed us most at any given moment.