Quotes about Loss

I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I — as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again — it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.

Well, that is another hope gone. My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Well, that was life. Gladness and pain...hope and fear...and change. Always change! You could not help it. You had to let the old go and take the new to your heart...learn to love it and then let it go in turn. Spring, lovely as it was, must yield to summer and summer lose itself in autumn. The birth...the bridal...the death...

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

The dead will only be dead if you stop remembering them.

we lost our son, Anne, as did many others, but we have our memories of him and souls cannot die. We can still walk with Walter in the spring.

And yet... you wouldn't want it to stop hurting... you wouldn't want to forget your little mother even if you could.

He who accepts human love must bind it to his soul with pain, and she is not lost to me. Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes." -Anne of green gables

tasted the bitterness of death

I have met with many of the great parents who lost their children to sanctuary cities and open borders. So many people, so many, many people. So sad.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.