Loss Relationships Quotes

#1. Yes, we will get hurt. Our hearts will break, and if we are lucky they will break open. When they do, we can begin to experience ourselves, relationships - indeed all of life - in a deeper, richer, and more meaningful way.

Randy Siegel

#2. I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.

Liev Schreiber

#3. Don't waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#5. I gave up drinking before my twentieth birthday. I haven't touched the stuff since. And I've discovered that not everyone who does horrible things is a horrible person.

Brent Jones

#6. You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.
Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.

Rainbow Rowell

#7. In the context of loss, each child is an only to her or his parents. Human relationships do not fill in for, do not substitute for, do not replace each other.

Marcia Falk

#8. Just like modern economic system, our relationships follow typical profit & loss mechanism where people are nothing more than useful tools.

Saurabh Sharma

#9. If I could sleep with my arms around you, the ink could stay in the bottle.

Shelly King

#10. The process of grief and loss is as unique as your personal DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid); no two individuals will have the same experiences or relationship to grief.

Asa Don Brown

#11. 'Better to have loved and lost,' my ass.
Anyone parroting that little platitude had obviously never lost anyone of consequence.

Nenia Campbell

#12. The only person you should ever fear losing in a relationship is you yourself.

Miya Yamanouchi

#13. Maybe relationships could have fractals, too. And maybe the sense of loss was when you're becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other.

David Levithan

#14. (Her husband's departure ... ) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.
From Butterfly on F street

Edward P. Jones

#15. The individual who violates the rules in a zealous search for an answer to the problem may overstep the bounds and thereby suffer the loss of his relationships to the organized medical profession.

Morris Fishbein

#16. I am thinking of our family's women
as faraway bulbs, their history
with crippling loss, and
how I am pieced together, shell and sand,
from the spine of their collective strength.

Jerrold Yam

#17. Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

Helen Fielding

#18. There's a universal
understanding between
men of the silent sorrow
a man endures when
he loses a woman he
loves

Phil Volatile

#19. Love doesn't always curl your toes sometimes it takes a bite right out of your soul.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#20. How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?

Dee Remy

#21. I don't know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.

Brenda Perlin

#22. I can never gain something without losing everything I had before.

Nadia Scrieva

#23. It's like everyone has their own little recipe for happiness, but no one really seems all that happy.

Brent Jones

#24. Sometimes people leave us because staying becomes an impossibility. Because the world just gets too small. Or, sometimes, because there is just one boat, and too many hands ... Because maybe, life can be a bit bigger than it exists today. And because, somewhere else, there may be another boat.

Collier Lumpkin

#25. That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate.

Loretta Ellsworth

#26. If that's the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You've numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry.

Brent Jones

#27. We hunger for connection but take pride in being distant.

Turcois Ominek

#28. Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them.

Teresa Mummert

#29. The causes of familial discord and distance are countless, but the results are often the same: secrecy, blame, sadness, hurt, confusion, and feelings of loss and grief.

Sharon Salzberg

#30. Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy
nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships.
It is actually the ability to use energy data
to make decisions in the immediate moment.

Caroline Myss

#31. Pornography ... overtakes lives, causing loss of the Spirit, distorted feelings, deceit, damaged relationships, loss of self-control, and nearly total consumption of time, thought, and energy.

Linda S. Reeves

#32. I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogged down so much with all of that, with domestic stories and relationships and a woman dealing with the loss of her husband.

Miguel Syjuco

#33. He pondered his turmoil, wondering which he feared most - losing his father or being alone in the world. Both were inevitable. Neither could be stopped or slowed down. All he could do now was brace for impact.

Brent Jones

#34. Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. 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

#35. It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.

Sunny-Drunk

#36. He was seven years old the summer that his life ended. He'd always felt like his life was taken the moment that truck rammed into his father and sister. Or at least, the life he would have had was ended before it even began.

Melodie Ramone

#37. You may have also experienced the damaged relationships, job loss, poor school performance, substance use, and other negative outcomes that can result from having bipolar disorder. Perhaps

Ruth C. White

#38. I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.

Loretta Ellsworth

#39. The biggest energy losses for most people are relationships, interrelations with other people. That is where we lose the most energy, through our attachments - opening up to people who might be very nice on the surface but underneath they have a lot of problems.

Frederick Lenz

#40. Virtually all women will always carry the scars and a deep sense of loss and grief from the betrayal. Whether a woman has stayed, left, or been left, it must be remembered that time is the salve on this journey towards forgiveness and healing, because it is also a process of grieving.

Meryn G. Callander

#41. It's like you're always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little.

Brent Jones

#42. Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.

Kathy Baker

#43. I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.

Ashly Lorenzana

#44. You lose a child and you do understand each other's grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it's all over. Suddenly each of you is alone.

Alison Bruce

#45. I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#46. Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you'
he held out both hands as though shifting a piece of furniture
'were going to be sitting there, and I was going to get down on one knee, and ... and ...

Lauren Willig

#47. The thing is: you might be right to trust someone at one point, but they can change."
"+ in between they must be drifting from trustworthy to not. But you can't tell how far they've drifted until it's too late.

J.J. Abrams

#48. And the reason he cannot bear her dying is not the loss of her (which is the future) but that dying puts the two of them (now) into this nakedness together that is unforgivable.

Anne Carson

#49. The negative energies when sent out in the universe will reap an equivalent or more of that. It can come back as health problems, an accident, material loss or painful relationships.

Hina Hashmi

#50. The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

Rosanne Cash

#51. It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself.

Grant Morrison

#52. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth.

Brian Weiss

#53. I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know?

Brent Jones

#54. It feels like I'm stuck in one spot. It's been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you're moving on without me. And I - I'm not ready to be alone.

Brent Jones

#55. It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.

Jodi Picoult

#56. So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Margaret George

#57. But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.

Melanie Bennett

#58. When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#59. You will know what and who really matters to you the moment you feel you have lost them.

Shannon L. Alder

#60. See, you've got to understand, son. There's two types of guys in this world. There's guys . . . who think they're in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is.

Brent Jones

#61. The best mistakes are made when the worst of heart breaks occur. When Love is blind and the captive, faithful.

Solange Nicole

#62. Never blame men, they have too many responsibilities because they live in a country where they are being taught to take up the burden since they get an erection.

Himmilicious

#63. A breakup is a loss to both parties; not only to he or she who is told that it's over.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#64. Happiness isn't something you work toward, the same way misery isn't something you work toward.

Brent Jones

#65. In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored and denigrated, and experiencing development with a great sense of trauma, loss and social disconnectedness.

James Wolfensohn

#66. We must learn to say no and not fear the loss of relationships. I have come to the conclusion that if I lose a relationship because I tell someone no, then I really never had a true relationship at all.

Joyce Meyer

#67. I sit here with you now with one sure answer. Love is the most potent bond, the most elaborate trap, the most irresistible object, and the most lethal weapon. I am everything with it, and nothing without it.

Suenammi Richards

#68. You mean to tell me you're mourning the loss of someone who never existed?

Taylor Nadeau

#69. What's the difference? You ask me
The difference is, a smile touches my lips
When I remember both the memory of you entering my life
And the memory of you leaving my life

Tammy-Louise Wilkins

#70. A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

Joshua Foer

#71. Failed relationships do not mean failure. I didn't fail them and they didn't fail me. It's a loss, but not failure!' she

Kavita Kane

#72. Inside a home you left me, a blue orphanage.
Inside a bluish mosaic, space to live.

Heng Siok Tian

#73. Most breakups are awful. But with compassion, attention, introspection, and intention they can become transforming, bringing you closer to alignment with your true self while preparing you for the next great adventure.

Randy Siegel