4,061 Quotes About Loss

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

All four of us were young and undaunted and our smiles were so strong that it made me smile even then on the couch, with a kind of loss.

The language of roses shifts under our feet. It blows in and out like the wind. It carries the fragrance of the flower and then it is gone...It is how we learn to speak about something that is disappearing as we say its name.

He's been longing for it for a long time now. The end. He misses her so much that sometimes he can't bear existing in his own body.

Jenna didn't have emotions to spare for other people's pain.

Is there anything so empty as something that's once been full?

When the netted fence of spiderwebsthat darkens my ruined housecan hold the wind in its strands-that's when these troubled thoughtswill blow away. . . .

We get sombre about death. Think about Charon the ferryman rowing the souls across the Styx to the Isle of the Dead. Pretty grim stuff. Unless you think that, perhaps, at times, old Charon rows souls back to the land of the living too. Perhaps I have merely gone to rest awhile…

Happy moments can turn into pain, given time.