“She loved too much. She staked everything on people she loved. When they were gone, it destroyed her.”
“Loss is exclusively the result of lack of communication.”
“But time moves in only one direction. Not everything that breaks can be repaired.”
“The loss is a gain. The gain is a loss.”
“I do not want to eat or drink, or i will lose the taste of you in my mouth”
“The wounds will take decades to heal, centuries to overcome the trauma.”
“LOSS Sorry for your loss, they say. And I want to know what they mean, because it s not just my boys I ve lost. I ve lost my motherhood, my chance to be a grandmother. I ve lost the easy conversation of neighbours and the comfort of family in my old age. Every day I wake to some new loss that I hadn t thought of before, and I know that soon it will be my mind. Vivienne Blackman, 1915”
“I was the baby of the family. Now I don’t have anybody to show off for anymore.”
“... but that was comfort lent in catastrophe. Now, in the absence of tragedy, we couldn t seem to find each other.”
“It took a month after the breakup for her to realize that she was refusing to go anywhere that didn t have cell service on the off chance he d call, and after that revelation she [Jeannine Dziri] found herself wondering if you were wrong to believe that you went on as yourself even after the loss of that person who had so decisively shaped you.”
“God is great! In times of pain, He gives power. In times of sickness, He provides healing and after a loss, He is able to restore what was lost.”
“Life’s nothing but saying good-bye, if you care to look at it that way.” “Oh god,” I say with a shiver. “I don’t.” “Me, either, but sometimes you can’t seen any alternative.” “So then what do you do?” “What I do is try to stick myself into it more. If I’m the one who has to let go, then I try to do it, not have it done to me. It doesn’t hurt as much that way, plus you can learn something in the process.” “I Guess.” “Not that learning something does you any good next time. You think it will but it doesn’t. Oh, honey, we just have to go through it all.”
“Nothing is lost here, in this place before language, before longing. The love is the same, after all. Only the names change.”
“The greatest challenge lies in transforming knowledge into wisdom, in reshaping dust into beauty so much so that your eyes burn with tears in a joy unfelt for so long.”
“While living YOUR OWN life, always be sure that you are not making loss of anyone because of YOU.”
“Vi måste våga gå ut och möta livet - hur smärtsamt det än är.”
“Every loss creates a void. If you try to fill it, you will fill it with garbage. If you let time fill it, it will be filled with normal stuff. If you don t let it fill, God will call out to you through it. Then you will begin the journey to find Him.”