Loss Quotes

"So it goes."

Kurt Vonnegut

"There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre."

Kurt Vonnegut

"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."

Alphonse de Lamartine

"The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – but the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love."

Hilary Stanton Zunin

"You will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news."

Anne Lamott

"We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love."

Madame de Staël

"And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss of one creature makes a void in any heart so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!"

Charles Dickens

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."

"The death of a beloved is an amputation."

"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all."

Mitch Albom

"Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant."

Joan Didion

"The way we deal with loss shapes our capacity to be present to life more than anything else."

Rachel Naomi Remen

"Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really."

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

"'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"The art of losing isn't hard to master."

Elizabeth Bishop

"Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'"

Edgar Allan Poe

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."

William Makepeace Thackeray

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it."

L. M. Montgomery

"Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship."

Mitch Albom

"Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room."

Henry Scott Holland

"Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind."

William Wordsworth