50 Quotes About Loss To Comfort And Uplift You
Looking for the best quotes about loss? These 50 epic loss quotes will ease your pain and suffering and instead comfort you today.
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QUOTES ABOUT LOSS
1 – Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi
2 – It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. John Steinbeck
3 – Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it’s time for them to be hurt. Haruki Murakami
4 – Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. Paulo Coelho
5 – You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them. Mahatma Gandhi
6 – If you’re searching for a quote that puts your feelings into words – you won’t find it. You can learn every language and read every word ever written – but you’ll never find what’s in your heart. How can you? He has it. Ranata Suzuki
7- Why love what you will lose? There is nothing else to love. Louise Glück
8 – You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you will never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news.
They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp. Anne Lamott
9 – The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives. Rob Liano
10 – 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. John Boyne
QUOTES ABOUT LOSS
11 – If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard.
And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart. Ranata Suzuki
12 – You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it?
The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to? Jeanette Winterson
13 – There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost. Claire North
14 – There’s a bit of magic in everything. And then some loss to even things out. Lou Reed
15 – She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. Jean Rhys
16 – When one person is missing the whole world seems empty. Pat Schweibert
17- Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. José N. Harris
18 – No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. Paulo Coelho
19 – Remembering. Forgetting. I’m not sure which is worse. Kelley Armstrong
20 – Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. Orson Scott Card
QUOTES ABOUT LOSS
21 – Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering. Roland Barthes
22 – There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
23 – Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn’t magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning. Carrie Jones
24 – Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. Edna St. Vincent Millay
25 – Happy moments can turn into pain, given time. Matt Haig
26 – Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest. Ralph Waldo Emerson
27- Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language. Mark Slouka
28 – Why is the measure of love loss? Jeanette Winterson
29 – I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect. Mahatma Gandhi
30 – I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence. Alyson Noel
QUOTES ABOUT LOSS
31 – Good-byes hurt the most when the other person’s already gone. Angie Thomas
32 – When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you’re going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life… It’s a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself. Patrick Swayze
33 – It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away. Elizabeth Gilbert
34 – The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss. Rebecca Solnit
35 – It’s natural, as our loved ones age, to start grieving their loss. Even before we lose them. Steven Rowley
36 – Loss is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place. Yasmin Mogahed
37- To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost. Peter Høeg
38 – The fear of loss . . . it can destroy you as much as the loss itself. Sarah J. Maas
39 – The worst pain … isn’t the pain you feel at the time, it’s the pain you feel later on when there’s nothing you can do about it. They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory … José Saramago
40 – It’s not the endings that will haunt you but the space where they should lie. The things that simply faded without one final wave goodbye. Erin Hanson
QUOTES ABOUT LOSS
41 – Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind. Katherine Owen
42 – I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief. C.S. Lewis
43 – Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream. Euripides
44 – It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything. Chuck Palahniuk
45 – Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here’s what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss them grow longer. Then, when you do remember to miss them again, it’s still with a stabbing pain to the heart. And you have guilt. Guilt because it’s been too long since you missed them last. Kristin O’Donnell Tubb
46 – You never know what you have till you’ve lost it. Alyson Noel
47- She took a step and didn’t want to take any more, but she did. Markus Zusak
48 – My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn’t go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her.
That’s just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. Jandy Nelson
49 – When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers.
Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part. John Irving
50 – Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you. John Green
Much love,
Frances Vidakovic
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