We don’t know predestined ways,or what future might behold,someone leaves,someone remains,and new things replace the old.We don’t know a thing for sure,what’s today,is there tomorrow?Yet,somehow we still endure,through those moments filled with sorrow.Can we really...

Treat gain and loss the same.’ Don’t be Intimidated. Don’t make a Big Deal of anything – just accept things as they come to you.

But you are my wife!” when I didn’t do something that he wanted me to do. His expectations were not realistic.

Though sorrow may impede my heart,It is of great love to have known you.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn’t have something in the first place. I guess that’s what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you...

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

And thus we all are nighingThe truth we fear to know:Death will end our cryingFor friends that come and go.

There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all....

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won’t make that mistake again.

June is gone. For the first time, the enormity of that hits me. Every muscle aches, my heart most of all. I am throbbing with how much I miss her. It hurts worse than anything....

I didn’t mean I’d seen everything, John Grady said.I know you didn’t.I just meant I’d seen some things I’d as soon not of.I know it. There’s hard lessons in this world. What’s the hardest? I...

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

In the first year of my grief, there were times when I felt like hiding my personal story of loss and other times when I wanted to wear a sign on my body that read...

Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what you had been doing without, what could have been better, all the samll...

So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal theloss, no matter how important the thing that’s stolen from us – that’ssnatched right out of our hands – even if we...

So, how can I try to be someone I didn’t really even know?

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

I have loved and lost many a time, but along the way I have found myself.

The world was not to be trusted. Loved persons were always stolen. Dreams always squashed. That was life as she understood it.

Eternity is a long time and it doesn’t always work out that way,” Jareth says, a bit bitterly. “It’s worse to love someone and then lose them, then to never love at all.

There’s a lamentation in the flutter of your lash.

This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled...

I used to be one, until my wife died. And then I was just pathetic.

Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have...

It’s odd, I think of my poor wife often, but I can’t think of her for a long time.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Loss makes the soul sick

Loss taught me. Loss taught me that death comes to both the old and the young.

Chuang-tzu once told a story about two persons who both lost a sheep. One person got very depressed and lost himself in drinking, sex, and gambling to try to forget this misfortune. The other person...

Free is he who is reputable for not being fearful of losing his reputation.

It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was…perfect.

I sit there on the floor with the picture in front of me and think about how things get broken all the time by accident, and how sometimes you just don’t get round to getting...

You can’t go home again

Innocence could be lost more than once after all.

Even after she was gone, he passed her place each day: something white in a high window – not a face,but the white belly of a pigeon beating its wingsagainst the pane in the boarded-up...

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat...

Laine slowly rolled out of bed. The queen size was one of the few new things in the house. But now, even the new bed felt tainted. It was an inner-spring monument to lies, a...

Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss.

As we grow up, nothing changes more than the definition of loss.

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it...

Maxwell Arbus was the reason Saul lost an eye?” “Yes,” Millie answers stiffly. “But that was a long time ago. Saul has moved on. So have I.” Whatever checks I’d held on my emotions shatter....

Because, George thought as she sat there with her eyes closed back before Christmas in Mrs Rock’s self-consciously comfortable chair in the counselling office, how can it be that there’s an advert on TV with...

In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed. They come knit together. The lines of pain run through the joy and...

Love was indeed a big responsibility. One must use the word judiciously. One cannot love one day and take away love the next day. It is total caring.

Zo zal ik vertrekken’, zegt Germaine. ‘Ik ben het oude hart van een dorp waar niemand komt wonen. Ik zal stoppen met kloppen en het weinige wat ik heb gekend en nog niet is verdwenen,...

I was always on guard and I was always prepared for him to be upset with me. I had lived feeling uneasy and tense for so long.

Be Creative, consume time, don’t let the time consumes you..

Anything said is gone as soon as it leaves my lips. Things written down at least have a chance to leave a soft echo of what had been.

On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.