4,061 Quotes About Loss

No popularity exists when tragedy strikes. All that's left are human hearts and love and ache. We all love each other, deep down, and when we see another soul in pain we can't help but hurt too.

No one knows what to do now, so we stay in Room 8 for too long, standing close as people come and go. We watch the horses.

I betrayed my body sleeping with you. I gave up my integrity, giving you pieces of me you did not deserve.

When you cry about losing a dog, it means the dog did its job. It means the dog made a connection.

Reminiscences of old, dried-over pains were no consolation in the face of this. They had the effect of cold beads of water on a hot iron - they danced and fizzled up while the room stank from their steam.

The first day after a death, the new absence Is always the same; we should be carefulOf each other, we should be kind While there is still time.From "The Mower

What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.

How many times could a person hurt you and your love for them endure?Then again, surely only love could make words like hers cut so deeply? Love didn't stop people from hurting each other-- love made it easier.

I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys.