424 quotes found
“The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and seal...”
“I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.”
“I lost someone very close to me and afterward I believed I could have saved him had I been a better friend to him. But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”
“Nowadays he doesn't think of his wife, though he knows he can turn around and evoke every move of her, describe any aspect of her, the weigh of her wrist on his heart during the night.”
“We can only lose what we have first claimed.”
“You can't lose someone who was never there in the first place.”
“Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.”
“Loss leaves us empty- but learn not to close your heart and mind to grief. Allow life to replinish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible- but new”
“Don't love anything that can be taken away.”
“That's what it's all aboutknowing what you have to lose, but risking the loss anyway.”
“I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.”
“If he closed his eyes he could dwell in the circuit of air that had once held her, he could hold his breath and be inside her again, within the close and burning borders of her- she stood here, was...”
“So lately, been wonderingWho will be there to take my placeWhen I'm gone, you'll need love To light the shadows on your face.”
“I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.”
“Watching them, Harmony felt too shaken to take a step. Eddie and Sheba were young; but she herself had become old. Even if she wasnt particularly old if you just counted years, the fact was years w...”
“I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.”
“There are times when our victories have a cost that we did not foresee, when winning brings us loss.”
“Losing your faith in a world where God is all around you is a precarious business. When God shows his face on a daily basis to your friends and neighbors, it is, on some level, impossible to stop b...”
“The coach who goes home and doesn't think about the game he just lost is bound to repeat his mistakes.”
“And in an apartment on the other side of town, everyone wakes up with a start when the hound in the first-floor flat, without any warning, starts howling. Louder and more heartrendingly than anythi...”
