Quotes about Loss
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills…
— Walt Whitman
O past! O happy life! O songs of joy! In the air, in the woods, over fields, Loved! loved! loved! loved! loved! But my mate no more, no more with me! We two together no more. -from Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
— Walt Whitman
Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
— Walt Whitman
Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost, / No birth, identity, form - no object of the world. / Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;... / The body, sluggish, aged, cold - the embers left from earlier fires, / The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again
— Walt Whitman
It is not a terrible thing to love the world, knowing that the world is always passing and irrecoverable, to be known only in loss. To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.
— Wendell Berry
I sat in that room and realized that you can cut off a finger, cut off a hand, even cut off a leg, but if you take a woman's breast, you are cutting more than just a body part.
— Charles Martin
He said he gave up what he couldn't keep to gain what he couldn't lose.
— Charles Martin
She blazed, burned herself out, and then disappeared into the silent deep, sounding the echoes of remembrance throughout a hollow and shattered heart.
— Charles Martin
The point is that hell is separate from love. If Lucifer knows anything, he knows that. And ever since Emma left, I'd known the same thing. It's a lonely, desolate place.
— Charles Martin
...if I lose at play, I blaspheme, and if my fellow lose, he blasphemes, so that God is always sure to be a loser.
— John Donne
As a culture, we seem to have an intolerance for suffering; we tend to want those who have experienced a loss of any kind to get on with their lives as quickly as possible. Often, by minimizing the impact of significant losses, pathologizing those whose reactions are intense, and applauding those who seem relatively unaffected by tragic events, we encourage the inhibition of our own grief.
— H. Norman Wright
Even if you attempt to ignore the loss, the emotional experience of it is implanted in your heart and mind, and no eraser will remove it.
— H. Norman Wright