“The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.”— James Patterson, amazon.com
“The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com
“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our pride…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”— Katharine Weber, amazon.com
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having…”— Anne Lamott, amazon.com
“People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will ‘lessen as time passes,’ but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be abl…”— Fredrik Backman, amazon.com
“Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss them grow longer. Then, when you do remember to miss them again, it's still with a stabbing pain to the heart. And you have guilt. Guilt because it's been too long since you mis…”— Kristin O'Donnell Tubb, amazon.com
“Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.”— Brian Ruckley, amazon.com
“I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart.”— Erin Morgenstern, amazon.com
“Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.”— Carrie Jones, amazon.com
“When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.”— Meghan O'Rourke, amazon.com
“Yes we will leave here without a trace Take a new name and an old shape I'll be no outlaw, no renegade Just your faithful god of loss”— Darlingside, youtube.com
“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.”— China Miéville, amazon.com
“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having…”— Anne Lamott, books.google.com
“I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.”— Michael J Fox, books.google.com