Quotes About Losing People You Love

#1. The pain of losing people you love is the price of the ticket for getting to know them at all.

Jill McCorkle

#2. 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

#3. When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Eugene O'Neill

#4. I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.

Joyce Carol Oates

#5. He explained that often times it's the love of something- like money, material, possessions, or power-and the fear of losing them, that command people to act. That love and fear are really the only two things that can forever alter a person, whether for the better or worse.

J. Saman

#6. Losing your job brings you closer to your destiny

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

Keanu Reeves

#8. See the light in losing your employment

Sunday Adelaja

#9. No amount of money can compensate losing your purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world.

Lana Del Rey

#11. I heard people say that when you lose someone you love, they keep thinking they see him. Like when a stranger walks by, they'll do a double take to make sure it's not him. They'll hear his voice in a cafe only to realize that what they heard was the sound of some baritone DJ on the radio.

Kyra Davis

#12. My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

Mollie King

#13. It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.

Donna Goddard

#14. Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.

Cassandra Clare

#15. The balance between the paralysing hurt of losing the people you love and the absolute glorious revelation of finding the one person that makes you happier than you've ever been. Someone who makes you so happy that you stare into your future and finally look forward to it.

Beckie Stevenson

#16. We are accustomed to losing things we love and people we adore but that doesn't change the fact that loss hurts.

Abdullah Abu Snaineh

#17. On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them. To disguise that, there's all this harsh, poop-centric, external swagger, full of nastiness. I'm a cloaking device.

George Saunders

#18. I've been looking at people and how they change with the times, and lately all I've been seeing are people throwing love away and losing their minds.

Michael Martin Murphey

#19. I think the level of casualties is secondary ... [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we are a warlike people and that we love war ... What we hate is not casualties but losing.

Michael A. Ledeen

#20. I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

Jay Roach

#21. Losing hope means ceasing to love my son and my girlfriend and many friends and people around the world.

Hassan Blasim

#22. To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I think that obviously he must have other people in his life. Everything that makes me balanced and happy is suddenly in the hands of someone else. It's an extremely uneasy feeling.

Joan Juliet Buck

#23. The fear of losing someone you love can turn people inside out.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#24. Some people say love is a losing game, you start with fire and you lose the flame. The ashes smolder, but the warmth's soon gone, you end up cold and lonely on your own.

Bob Seger

#25. How can losing love make you want to destroy people?

P.C. Cast

#26. Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.

Atul Purohit

#27. Love is worth the pain, but I ate losing people. Maybe I'm crazy, but I'd rather be miserable with you than be miserable without you.

Jay Bell

#28. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything. - Julian Blackthorn

Cassandra Clare

#29. Sometimes we fall in love and end up losing ourselves. We allow ourselves to become different people. But we have choices, Lily. We can choose to find the person we used to be, the person we really are. Or we can continue on as this new being."

-Conall.

Chani Lynn Feener

#30. I understand more than I want to. People act like love is a gift, but it's not. It's theft. It's a goddamn tragedy. Love is losing a vital organ to a man who will never give his in return.

Skye Warren

#31. Sometimes it is the sharp contrasts in life, the bitter and the sweet; things not working out as planned, relationships falling apart, losing your loved ones - these are the things that shake you and make you appreciate life, see the good in it and love anew the people around you.

Amy Passantino