Quotes about Loss

In the daylight we know what's gone is gone, but at night it's different. Nothing gets finished, not dying, not mourning;

That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies.

It was Crake preserving his dignity, because the alternative would have been losing it.

Blessed be those that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Nobody said when.

I didn't want to identify the body, or see it at all. If you don't see the body, it's easier to believe nobody's dead.

Blessed be those that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Nobody said when.

It disturbs me that he can remember some of these things about himself, but not others; that the things he's lost or misplaced exist now only for me. If he's forgotten so much, what have I forgotten?

Zenia has stolen something from him, the one thing he always kept safe before, from all women, even from Roz. Call it his soul. She slipped it out of his breast pocket when he wasn't looking, easy as rolling a drunk, and looked at it, and bit it to see if it was genuine, and sneered at it for being so small after all, and then tossed it away, because she's the kind of woman who wants what she doesn't have and gets what she wants and then despises what she gets. What

I watched your snapshot fade for twenty years.

I agree with you that Gilead ought to fade away-there is too much wrong in it, too much that is false, and too much that is surely contrary to what God intended-but you must permit me some space to mourn the good that will be lost.

Part of the life she should have had is just a gap, it isn't there, it's nothing.

there goes this day, down to where all the other days have gone, each one carrying something away with it.