Quotes About Losing Someone To Death

#1. The only balm to sorrow is memory; the only salve for the pain of losing someone to death is acknowledging the life that existed before.

Nina Sankovitch

#2. I was trying to put myself in the situation of someone that was going through major loss. Losing someone to death or sickness, and having to go through life on your own afterwords.

Coeur De Pirate

#3. Why do they lie?" she asked herself aloud. "They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse.

Rebecca McNutt

#4. Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

Jodi Picoult

#5. It was during that time he made me realize the scariest part about death, about being left behind - nothing else freezes after losing a loved one besides you.

Jennifer Snyder

#6. Sometimes it takes losing everything to see the truth in nothing, except love, honor, and death.

N.J. Paige

#7. I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Anais Nin

#8. Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

Julian Green

#9. Losing Grandma, just when I'd found her again. A waterfall of flowers brightened her funeral, but they couldn't disguise the stench of death.

Ellen Hopkins

#10. Losing the Super Bowl is worse than death. You have to get up the next morning.

George Allen

#11. A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.

Rumi

#12. You have to imagine your own death. When your time comes, what will you regret not doing? What will you wish you had more time to do, and what will have seemed trivial? Think of what you fear losing - those are the things that matter most.

Jeff Goins

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

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#14. Death says a million words that the heart can't pen.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. Many Christians dread the thought of leaving this world. Why? Because so many have stored up their treasures on earth, not in heaven. Each day brings us closer to death. If your treasures are on earth, that means each day brings you closer to losing your treasures.

Randy Alcorn

#16. Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

Marcus Aurelius

#17. We losers don't fear death. For us it's the end of a lifelong losing spell.

Dakota Dawn

#18. Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

Hunter S. Thompson

#19. Losing a mate to death is devastating but it's not a personal attack like divorce. When somebody you love stops loving you and walks away, it's an insult beyond comparison.

Sue Merrell

#20. Kissing meant he had to touch. Touching meant he wanted to crush her under him. Getting her under him meant he had to be inside her, and when he got there the only thing that kept him from losing it and going all caveman on her was the knowledge that he'd scare her to death if he did.

Anne Calhoun

#21. As an individual, as a household, you can't spend more money than you're bringing in. You can do it for a little while, but you end up going broke and you end up losing everything you have. That is the path that we're on as a country, and it scares me to death.

Jeff Foxworthy

#22. I'm curious about why there's so much honor given to death, when there is no honor in losing someone you love.

Mackie Burt

#23. After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been ... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

Nancy Hale

#24. To lose someone after you've loved them was tougher than losing them when you've never even met them.

Diyar Harraz

#25. The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#26. It is far easier for us to accept the death of someone we love than to cope with the idea of losing him and discovering that he is able to carry on with his life, in all its intricacies, despite our absence.

Ahlam Mosteghanemi

#27. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death. Most of us have fear in one form or another; and where there is fear there is no intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#28. The day you lose someone isn't the worst -at least you've got something to do- it's all the days they stay dead.

Steven Moffat

#29. Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

Peter Conrad

#30. Apollymi keeps a tight rein on them. (Kat)
Death to the bitch-goddess! May she die in a flaming pit of Charonte spit! (Xirena)
Damn, Kat, you can't win for losing. Is there anyone, other than you, who actually likes your family? (Sin)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. You can't learn anything from losing someone you love. Any lesson you learn from that isn't a lesson. It's a compromise with life. A lie you tell yourself.

Sonali Dev

#32. Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself.

John Green

#33. We are fools when we love. I was terrified of losing her. I thought I saw her changing
I don't know if she really was, but I couldn't bear the uncertainty any longer. I ran toward the finish just like a coward runs toward the enemy and wins a medal. I wanted to get death over.

Graham Greene

#34. Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

Jo Nesbo

#35. ... things such as losing a job, the death of a loved one, divorce, bankruptcy, illness. Once you have handled any of those things, you emerge a much stronger person.

Susan Jeffers

#36. We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

Hanya Yanagihara

#37. It was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs. God, I was dying the longest, most tortuous, and arousing death in the history of the world.

Cora Carmack

#38. Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Samuel Butler

#39. Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it ... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.

Suzanne Collins

#40. That was the problem with grieving one child in a family with other children. In my despair over losing Riley, I'd lost my daughter too.

Leslie A. Gordon

#41. Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.

Ron Howard

#42. It was easier to blame myself than to say that it was an accident that I had no control over. Losing control is one of the scariest things. That's why people are afraid of the dark. Or death. They're afraid of not being in control.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#43. The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

Leo Kottke

#44. I try not to think that death might really just be losing one's mind forever. So scattered that it never comes back.

J.R. Rain

#45. I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Eknath Easwaran

#46. How tragic lives there are in this world! But there is a greater tragedy: People who have very hard lives often believe that they will have a better life after death! Losing hope in life and running after an absolute illusion is even a bigger tragedy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#47. I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.

Patti Smith

#48. There will be blood," he said quietly, "blood and death. You should not have come."
"Since when was a woman afraid of blood?" she asked. "The problem is not only Sean's. It is mine also. If there is to be blood, I will share in the letting or the losing of it.

Louis L'Amour