Quotes about Loss
Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.
— William Saroyan
... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
— Cormac McCarthy
Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
In my childhood diary I wrote: "I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.
— Anais Nin
Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.
— George Eliot
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too many of us never understand what we owe to our dear ones until there remains no further opportunity of paying love's debt.
— J.R. Miller
You shall leave everything you love.
— Dante Alighieri
People destroy what they love.
— Paulo Coelho
If there were no Love, there'd be no grief.
— Zig Ziglar
In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.
— John Updike