Quotes about Loss

One of the things I miss most is that I can no longer read, due to age-related macular degeneration. I get regular injections for this, and thankfully these seem to have arrested its progress, but it's still very difficult for me to read. That means it is hard for me to pick up my Bible and read it like I used to, and I miss that very much.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay.

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Their world seemed made of little losses. she was always having to say goodbye, part with something. A brilliant sunset. A blossom. A sweet feeling.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.

Everything was going according to plan. What caught me off guard, however, was the fact that this eagerly awaited phase brought a sense of loss to me that triggered a whole new wave of soul searching I had not anticipated.

Run The Jewels, me and Mike, and our connection and everything, came out of a period of time where I had personally lost everything.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.

Sacrifice always means the renunciation of a valuable part of oneself, and through it the sacrificer escapes being devoured.