4,061 Quotes About Loss

Some have bravely shared their stories; they have opened the door, knowing that when one person speaks truth, it gives license for all of us to do the same. We have learned that when people ask how any of us are doing, and when they really listen to the answer, with an open heart and mind, the load of grief often becomes lighter — for all of us. In being invited to share our pain, together we take the first steps toward healing.

But I miss whom I once could touch, as all must do when we make our way through whatever forest or wood it is in which we travel or are raised. This does not mean the man is lost or has disappeared forever. For although he no longer walks beside you, he still remains in the time and place of memory and this is where he will appear again and again, as often as you will seek him. Not only in those places where he has always been but where he could not be then yet will be now.

We should have realized it sooner, at least my father should have, that there was no coming back. Not in September when the riots died down, not in October when the subcontinent still lay in shock, not even in November as he had hoped and promised us. Lahore was now lost forever

Leaving the memories behind, I am nobody. Carrying them with me, I am somebody. In honor of the forgotten past, I pen the verses of my heart. I arise with the sound of my soul. I arise to write my history on every page. I arise to pay off my debt. I arise to open my arms to this breaking dawn.

His name was Theo.

I am sunken in my own sea andI will drown myself in my loneliness within it.

I don’t think we ever let go of loved ones. They’re always in our hearts. I do think time lessens the pain of a loss but they never, ever leave us. That’s what memories are for.

healing comes in waves, and I'm allowed to feel every rise and every fall of my tide.

Happiness lacks depth. That is why happy people also lack depth, they have a superficiality about them. Suffering has great depth and it lends its depth to those who suffer.There is a depth in the life of people who go through suffering, there is a depth in their eyes, in their look, in their whole demeanor. Suffering cleanses and chastens you, it gives you a sharpness. Suffering has great depth which is utterly lacking in happiness.