“The loss tonight... And the loss today is gonna hurt for a long time.”— Emmitt Smith, walterfootball.com
“When you get divorced and you don't get the house (which I never did), you leave behind all sorts of things you don't have the sense to know you'll someday wonder about, or wish you still had, or, worst of all, feel genuinely nostalgic for.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”— J. K. Rowling, Albus Dumbledore, amazon.com
“Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.”— Desmond Tutu, amazon.com
“I was afraid of the boogeyman until I was fourteen or fifteen. The boogeyman was the devil who could appear in any form. Before I went to sleep, I had to look under my bed. The boogeyman was death and death was the greatest fear of all.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“I loved you like I was going to lose you. Yet here I am, grasping at thin air and wondering why I was left behind.”— Orenda, instagram.com
“I am please don’t go. / I am toss the windows open, but I am windows closed. / Nothing comes in, no one gets out.”— Lisa Marie Basile, occulum.net
“Losing you, has given me reasons to doubt, to lose faith, to never want to trust. Your actions have closed off parts of me, made me want to hold back.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“The thing is, when you lose someone, you realize you'll eventually lose everyone.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.”— Mary Todd Lincoln, quoteland.com
“When I can bring myself to realize that he has indeed passed away, my question to myself is, ‘can life be endured?'”— Mary Todd Lincoln, quoteland.com
“They won’t understand until you leave. The minute you walk away you’ll become ‘the best they’ve ever had.’ It’s crazy how loss triggers love.”— Alex Elle, noeeeee.tumblr.com
“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com