4,061 Quotes About Loss

"The self sustaining beauty that pushes the fears and uplifts to dream, to hope and to begin again. What defines it is its act of endurance, through the grueling seasons of life....."

"The music of falling leaves, the autumnal story to tell, as I drink in deep its nostalgic smell. The flash of red, the flash of gold. Yesterday is past, yet, the tale did not grow old."

"My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was still living, too."

"It's not easy losing someone," she said. "It never goes away, does it?" "The Phantom Pain, they call it," I said. "Like amputees get when they can still feel their missing limbs."

"That's the thing about loss—it takes everything you love in an instant, yet gives you a lifetime of sorrow."

"...what happens when you returnand find nothingbut a hollowed shell,shingles and floor,walls and echoesand the light that lead you herehas now burned outand the ones who built ithave traveled afarand you cant go to them,no matter what shoes you wear."

"The single dinner plate, the silent house, the tumbler in the sink--this was how it would be if he lost her. His mother had gone quickly, from liver cancer, the mass discovered too late. He thought of his father alone in his condo, crossing off days on the calendar like a prisoner. He'd survived her by thirteen years, yet every time Henry saw him, he quoted her as if they'd just spoken. Henry could picture himself doing the same to the children. He already lived too much in his memory."

"Suddenly, after you die, those friends who never agreed about anything agree about your character."

"The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it."