Quotes about Loss

And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.

Even as I hold you I think of you as someone gone far, far away. Your eyes the color of pennies in a bowl of dark honey bringing sweet light to someone else your black hair slipping through my fingers is the flash of your head going around a corner your smile, breaking before me, the flippant last turn of a revolving door, emptying you out, changed, away from me. Even as I hold you I am letting go.

I do not grieve in the abstract, but in the heart.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

You will give birth to more in the future than you've lost in the past.

Too often we don't realize how great we have it until something is taken away.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.