Quotes and Sayings about Loss

And as I go about discarding things, I realize what it is I can't let go of.

Have you ever lost someone? It's like you're dying with them. They can move on. And you're stuck.

Maybe the best way to cope with the loss of the people we love is to find them in as many places and things as we possibly can.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

Nothing on earth can compensate the loss of someone who loved us.

We don't realize how much we need something until it's taken away from us.

When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

What you don't give up, you never lose.

When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.

They say the first year after a major loss is the hardest. That’s an understatement; loss is its own brand of insanity and no relief from it. There are no shortcuts and the only way through grief is through it. You just have to get up every day and wait to go to bed every night, then wake up and do it all over again.

Sometimes we have to realize what we're about to lose in order to know how precious it is to us.

You are going to lose people in your life.
And I realize that no matter how much you spent with them,
or how much you appreciated them and told them so,
it will never seem like it was enough.

Sometimes it takes a huge loss to remind you of what you care about the most. Sometimes you find yourself becoming stronger as a result, wiser, better to deal the next big desaster that comes along. Sometimes but not always.

There can be no triumph without loss. No victory without suffering. No freedom without sacrifice.

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Sometimes in life when you get what you want, you end up missing what you left behind.

Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know your lover when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know your lover when you've let her go

Strength is not power itself, but how you wield it.

We are Shadow Garden. We lurk in the shadows, and hunt the shadows.

Right down here, the ocean has a depth of almost 4,000 meters. Man has mapped out every corner of this world. Been to the farthest deserts, the top of the highest mountains. But what's down there is still a mystery. A hidden world in the shadows.

We all wear masks. We all pretend. Presenting a perfect illusion on the outside, while we desperately try to hide who we are on the inside.

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

People say you fall in love, but fall is such a sad word when you think about it. Falls are never good. You fall on the ground, you fall behind, you fall to your death. Whoever was the first person to say they fell in love must have already fallen out of it. Otherwise, they'd have called it something much better.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

A mosquito is more annoying for a lion than a lion is for a mosquito.

I think if you stand still you will be forgotten and I am not here to be forgotten.

When you are grateful - when you can see what you have - you unlock blessings to flow in your life.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

It's the way it works: Love plus time minus distance equals hate.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up!

Trust is earned - I can't just magically hand it over.

Elena: "Why don't you ever let anyone see the good in you?"
Damon: "When people see good they expect good. And I don't wanna live up to anyone's expectations."

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Our bodies did the work but it was our souls that were conjoined.

I really think everyone should be important enough to just one other person on this freaking planet to be fought for. Even me. And nobody’s fighting for me. So I’m done.

Look outside. There was a terrible storm yesterday, but now it's clear. Everything dark will lead into something light, you just have to have faith that it will.

Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other.

The body is a slave to its impulses.

Doesn't matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives, Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point: All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all of that is what keeps us moving forward, it's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up, before we can step up.

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.