Quotes on “loss”

We're not words, Henry, we're people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?

Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much gravity on my heart.

To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...?

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

See, that’s the difference, Mauvin said. I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory ...