Quotes about Loss

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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. — José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love
From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to j — Edgar Allan Poe
You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. Y — Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. — Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part — Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as the — Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
When You Are Old"WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly r — W.B. Yeats
You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time — J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize — Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
Never give all the heart, for loveWill hardly seem worth thinking ofTo passionate women if it seemCertain, and they neve — W.B. Yeats, In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age
He came up and kissed me on my forehead, and before he stepped away, I closed my eyes and tried hard to memorize this mo — Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life. — Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? — Jodi Picoult, Mercy
Why is the measure of love loss? — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse. — Kelley Armstrong, The Calling
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depr — Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
That was the only time, as I stood there, looking at that strange rubbish, feeling the wind coming across those empty fi — Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
She’s kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she’s turned life away. Sometime — Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
I hold it true, whate'er befall;I feel it when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved — Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam