loss Quotes

Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all... ...

"He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."

"So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm;... ...

If we have no friends we have no pleasure and if we have them we are sure to lose them and be doubly pained by the loss.

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

"On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be... ...

"The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried."

"Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found."