4,061 Quotes About Loss

I cannot talk of the power of want, of how much desire can do. I don't think it can be measured. I think want is forgotten too quickly or dismissed as being worth far less than the other feelings -love, hate, envy. But to want something ... To wish for it so much that you think you cannot last, your heart and body cannot continue to hunger for something as much as this. It comes from loss. We want what we do not have. We want what we had, but don't now.

How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.

There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and taken, until there's nothing left but hope, and you've given that up because it hurts too much. Until you would rather die, or kill, or avoid attachments altogether, than lose one more thing.

Poems are not advertisements braying For the good life They have serious work to do Birthing people burying people Celebrating joy mourning loss

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.

God sends someone for each and every one of us to help with our loss. We just have to accept it.

Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.

She had a dream, quite singular, dearest to her heart.She had a dream, quite eccentric, treasured in her soul.She nurtured it, she cuddled it and kept it covered in the twinkle of her eye and waited patiently with a fond expectation.Yet in that sky wrapped in the radiance of a rainbow , all but that dream came alive.She often smiled at that solitary dream with numb tears of pallid fulfilment.

With the sense of lossthere you arewith tears rolling downyour cheeks after so longand here I amexperiencing the joy of laughterwithout you- Lit with or without you