“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
— John Steinbeck“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”
— Alyson Noel“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
— Haruki Murakami“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”
— Taylor Jenkins Reid“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.”
— Shaun David Hutchinson“I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. ”
— Maggie Stiefvater“I had someone once who made every day mean something.And now…. I am lost….And nothing means anything anymore.”
— Ranata Suzuki“Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.”
— Kelley Armstrong“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 at all.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson“I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.”
— Ranata Suzuki“I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.”
— Shaun David Hutchinson“The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.”
— Eric Berne“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.”
— Orson Scott Card“The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.”
— Erin Hunter“Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...”
— Sanhita Baruah“So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.”
— Margaret George“I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.”
— Shaun David Hutchinson“There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.”
— Charlie Kaufman“CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.JOEL: I know.CLEMENTINE: What do we do?JOEL: Enjoy it.”
— Charlie Kaufman“Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society”
— Mohadesa Najumi“Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.”
— Suzy Kassem“Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!”
— Latoya Alston“Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war.”
— Toba Beta“I have suffered a loss, Forrest, far greater than my legs. It's my spirit, my soul, if you will. There is only a blank there now - medals where my soul used to be.”
— Winston Groom“Life is the only thing which can never be replaced when lost.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita“Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.”
— Katherine Owen“He looked at me like I was the stars when all I’d ever felt like was the dark nothingness between them.”
— Ranata Suzuki“Though it’s reasons to burn may vary... you are always the fuel of my fire.”
— Ranata Suzuki