Quotes about Loss
Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
— Alice Hoffman
Your grief won't go away; it's not a door you can close,or a book you can put back on the shelf,or a kiss you can give back once it's given. This is the way the world is now. Keep the worst things to yourself, like a bone in your throat.
— Alice Hoffman
I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.
— Alice Hoffman
You cannot unwrite a death that has been written.
— Alice Hoffman
I signaled for him to lean down, and he did so. I then did the second most terrible thing a mother could do, in some ways worse than burying her beneath the stones. I breathed my daughter's last breath into his mouth. I gave her to him so that her spirit would belong to him and he could carry her with him, so that he could still be a man with a soul, even though he had lost everything else.
— Alice Hoffman
Lately, she's been wondering if perhaps when the living become the dead they leave an empty space behind, a hollow no one else can fill.
— Alice Hoffman
You lose people sometimes, you know. You don't expect to, but then it happens and you can't get them back.
— Alice Hoffman
Love could do that to some people and they wouldn't even know much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in the place where love had left them, while the whole world spun around.
— Alice Hoffman
I had lost my mother and my father and my sister, and sometimes when I caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window, I wondered if perhaps I hadn't lost myself as well
— Alice Hoffman
Unable are the Loved to die, for Love is Immortality," the boy said. When he saw the way Jet was looking at him he laughed. "I didn't come up with that, Emily Dickinson
— Alice Hoffman
Unable are the Loved to die, for Love is Immortality," the
— Alice Hoffman
A lot of people don't know what to do about grief. I don't blame you for a thing.
— Alice Hoffman