Quotes about Loss

the long sleep that outlasts love

Folks don't go to wars for fun. A man don't leave his maw crying just for fun.

The boys were dancing. The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beards of flame twenty feet in the air. For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks. Trunks crumbled to a white dust.

There's death coming up, and you better understand this: some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

One of the things I miss most is that I can no longer read, due to age-related macular degeneration. I get regular injections for this, and thankfully these seem to have arrested its progress, but it's still very difficult for me to read. That means it is hard for me to pick up my Bible and read it like I used to, and I miss that very much.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay.

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Their world seemed made of little losses. she was always having to say goodbye, part with something. A brilliant sunset. A blossom. A sweet feeling.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.