Quotes About Losing Someone

#1. He was a super shiny boy and I liked the shape of him. Under the blanket. In the shower. I liked his shadow on the street and his imprint on the sofa. I hated the smell of hair gel on his head, but I loved it on the pillow. I love the smell of losing someone.

Emma Forrest

#2. Love can't exist without fear. If the thought of losing someone doesn't scare the shit out of you, then it's not love.

Penelope Ward

#3. 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

#4. People always said it would get easier after losing someone. People said that, over time, it would get better. But I couldn't comprehend how that could be true. As each day passed, it just became harder. The world only grew darker. The pain merely deepened.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#5. I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

Deb Caletti

#6. I'm so sorry, Brody. I won't bullshit you and feed you a line about how it will get easier, because I know it won't. You don't get over losing someone you love. You just learn to live through the pain every day as you try to have some kind of normalcy in your life.

Danielle Jamie

#7. Everyone says that loves hurts, but that's not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Everyone confuse these things with love but reality, love is the only thing in this world that covers up all the pain and makes us feel wonderful again.

Anonymous

#8. Why does it take the threat of losing someone to make you appreciate them the way you should?

Siobhan Davis

#9. Yeah, and I honestly don't hold it against you anymore. Ben's an amazing guy, and I bet losing someone like that hurt pretty damn bad. You both paid for what happened, which is a shame, because love shouldn't have a price.

Jay Bell

#10. 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

#11. Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about; then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose.

Karen Maitland

#12. I used to think the worst feeling in the world is losing someone you love. But I was wrong the worst feeling in the world is the moment that you realize you've lost yourself.

L.J.Smith

#13. If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

Paulo Coelho

#14. The pain of losing someone is always worse when you know you could have prevented it.

Renee Carlino

#15. You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it.

Ali Hewson

#16. The distance between losing someone and accepting that they are gone is of course the very essence of grieving,

Marie Mutsuki Mockett

#17. I'm scared of losing wealth; but its better than losing someone like you.

Kent Ian N. Cny

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

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#19. It takes a year, nephew ... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.

Annie Proulx

#20. Funny how losing someone important is the thing that finally makes me decide to step outside my comfort zone. Now I wish I would've done it sooner.

Helena Hunting

#21. Life doesn't stop after losing someone, but it goes on without them differently.

Nizar Qabbani

#22. 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

#23. There's nothing good about losing someone. But maybe Lucy wasn't supposed to be your compass forever. Maybe she was there for you just long enough so you could learn how to be your own compass and find your own way. The universe is a strange thing.

Julie Murphy

#24. Somewhere along the way I feel as though I lost my identity and its not like losing a passport it feels more like losing someone so dear to your heart that it pains you everyday to be so unsure if you'll ever see them again or not

Donal O'Callaghan

#25. Losing someone close to you is more haunting than a life of cursed solitude.

~The Moon Master

Clara Diane Thompson

#26. Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so is the flawed, honest humanity of his characters. Here is real loss and somehow, real catharsis.

Peter Orner

#27. It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once in a while something comes up that plays "gotcha," and for a moment or tow the car tissue seperates and the wound is raw again.

Mary Higgins Clark

#28. 'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

Ellie Goulding

#29. The hardest part about losing someone you love is the fact that you also lose yourself.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#30. Losing someone is like when the sun comes through a window, moving across the room with each hour, until night falls and all you can do is try to remember the soothing shapes it made.

Stewart Lewis

#31. We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

Emmanuelle Beart

#32. She couldn't believe losing someone you had known such a short time could feel like losing part of yourself, that it could make food taste wrong and colors seem dull.

Jojo Moyes

#33. I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

Lena Headey

#34. Losing someone you love, it'd be similar to losing your home.

Katie McGarry

#35. That was the thing about grief. It wasn't something you worked through once. It was something you worked through over and over again. The effects of losing someone lasted a lifetime.

Stephanie Reid

#36. Suddenly I'm having one of those moments that you have after losing someone - when you feel as if you've been kicked in the stomach and all your breath is gone, and you might never get it back. I want to sit down on the dirty, littered ground right now and cry until I can't cry anymore.

Jennifer Niven

#37. Sometimes when you're losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can.

Mitch Albom

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. Sometimes I think there's no such thing as falling in love. It's just the fear of losing someone.

Jodi Picoult

#41. That's something like the sensation of losing someone. You are never in your life so alive, and so aware of being alive, yet so isolated and abandoned, as when a loved one is taken from you. The planet will move right through you like wind through stalks of grass.

Dennis Bock

#42. 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

#43. There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

C.S. Lewis

#44. This is what they don't tell you about losing someone: It doesn't happen once. It happens every day, every moment they're missing from. You lose them a hundred times between waking and sleep, and even sleep is no respite, because you lose them in your dreams, too.

Leah Raeder

#45. I thought that might have been the worst thing about losing someone, that moment between asleep and awake, when you had to remember and accept the loss again, relive that moment when your life changed, and you lost something dear.

R.K. Lilley

#46. That was the worst part about losing someone-finding a place to store all the thoughts and feelings you'd otherwise share with them.

Kass Morgan

#47. People and birds were alike. Things happened that hurt them or made their lives harder. All the time. But losing someone or something important didn't mean the end of everything. It meant you had to find a new way to do things.

Suzanne Goldsmith

#48. The worst part about losing someone you love - besides the agony of never getting to see them again - are the things you never said. The unsaid stalks you, mocks you for thinking you had all the time in the world. None of us do.

Karen Marie Moning

#49. I'm already going to lose myself. I never want to have to deal with losing someone else, too.

Kiersten White

#50. When someone you love dies,part of you dies with them. It's why you're never the same after losing someone.

Shannon Messenger

#51. One of the hardest things about losing someone that you love is that you have to allow yourself to seek and accept comfort in other areas of your life

Meg Donohue

#52. Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise up from the dead.

Denise Grover Swank

#53. The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

Henry Rollins

#54. The idea of losing someone that you love could throw you into a situation where you could not see your future and you really would be living in the past.

Tom Ford

#55. Maybe love is a risk, but it's a risk I'm willing to take and as you said, it's not a choice. I never thought I would, never thought I could love someone like that but I fell in love with you. I fought it. It's the first battle I didn't mind losing.

Cora Reilly

#56. 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

#57. It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.

Shannon L. Alder

#58. I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.

Hilary Swank

#59. Almost always, jealousy is rooted in some sort of fear: of abandonment, of being replaced, of losing the attention of someone you love, of being alone. Jealousy isn't really about the person you feel jealous of. It's about you: your feeling that you might lose something precious.

Franklin Veaux

#60. The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.

Ellen Page

#61. Losing everything was still losing everything, however little someone began with.

Daniel Abraham

#62. What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else? -Plain Truth

Jodi Picoult

#63. The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope.

Tucker Elliot

#64. The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

Michael Patrick King

#65. 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

#66. I don't need a personal trainer ... I need someone to stalk me and threaten to kick my ass when I eat and drink stuff I'm not supposed to!

Tanya Masse

#67. Having something and losing it, it's so much crueler than never having had it.

Victoria Schwab

#68. Just once I want someone to be afraid of losing me," Phoebe said. "But the only thing Luke's afraid of losing is power.

Robyn Schneider

#69. If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.

Steve Rasnic Tem

#70. Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish. It can be running a mile, or a 10K race, or 100 miles. It can be changing a career, losing 5 pounds, or telling someone you love her (or him).

Scott Jurek

#71. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

Mitch Albom

#72. It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole family- the whole life that I'd chosen ...

Stephenie Meyer

#73. My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.

Ray William Johnson

#74. There's nothing like losing yourself in someone else's troubles to make you forget your own.

Therese Anne Fowler

#75. And if you ever feel yourself losing your way again,Cooper,and find that you just can't get your shit together,just reach out and love someone.Love is the most adult action anyone can ever carry out in this emotionally-stunted world,and once you love,the rest will fall into place.It has to.

Seth King

#76. How much maltreatment and exploitation could someone handle before losing self-control?

Mary Kubica

#77. The possibilities that exist between two people, or among a group of people, are a kind of alchemy. They are the most interesting thing in life. The liar is someone who keeps losing sight of these possibilities

Adrienne Rich

#78. It just a fun game, until someone starts to win and then everyone else begins to cheat!

Andrew James Pritchard

#79. Do you love her?"
"Yeah."
"And that's a bad thing?"
"Because relationships end."
"What?"
"If I don't tell Aly how I feel, we'll stay friends. I can handle that. Friendship is real. It lasts, and it's safe."
"Loving someone, being loved ... it's worth the pain of losing them.

Rachel Harris

#80. I'm always losing things.

Kathleen Glasgow

#81. The last time you kiss someone does not have to feel like you are losing them in a war.

Nikita Gill

#82. You see, I'd behaved pretty badly. Losing my head about someone I didn't really love and hurting someone I did. Why is one so stupid?"
"The heart has its reasons," said Will, "and the endocrines have theirs.

Aldous Huxley

#83. I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.

Sonia Sotomayor

#84. As someone who's very competitive, I'm someone who abhors losing more than I enjoy winning. In that regard, it hasn't been a great two months, but I think our players' attitude remains pretty resolute.

Skip Prosser

#85. Challenging someone is good. You need to do it. Sometimes they don't even realize you're doing it, like when you joke with a goalie, 'What's wrong today? You losing it?'

Sidney Crosby

#86. To love someone so deeply is to risk losing yourself forever. Once I admitted my feelings to him, there was no going back - no hope to ever make my heart complete without him

J.C. Reed

#87. I'm not sure about anything. I hate being in charge. I hate making the decisions. I'm terrified of losing Mark. I'm terrified of losing Emma. I want someone to take over. I'm not as strong as you think. The things I want are wrong and broken things to want.

Cassandra Clare

#88. I told him how winning never feels as good as losing feels bad and when he asked why, I told him that my wins were for someone else but my losses were all on me.

Douglas Brunt

#89. One of the things you learn about being married is that being with someone day in and day out can make you so comfortable that you risk losing your tact.

Apol Lejano-Massebieau

#90. Have you ever loved someone that just dont feel the same. tryin and make somebody care for you the way i do is like tryin to catch the rain, and if love is really forever, i'm a winner at a losing game!

Rascal Flatts

#91. My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.

Bonnie Tyler

#92. 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

#93. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Ernest Hemingway,

#94. When you have something this good, you keep it. Forever. And that's all the magic there is to it.

Nadege Richards

#95. I know that love is giving yourself to someone else. Giving yourself to someone without losing yourself

Tiffany Reisz

#96. But I learned something from it. From losing him. Even though I found my soulmate, that doesn't mean that I'm incapable of falling in love with someone else. It just means they're going to have to try harder for my attention.

Hollow Ryan

#97. I know this sounds incredibly lame,
but I don't want losing my virginity
to feel like I'm losing something.
I want it to feel like I'm finding something.
I want sex to be amazing.
I want it to be life-alteringly wonderful.
And I want it to happen with someone I love.

Sonya Sones

#98. Losing does not make you a failure; it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure

John Wooden

#99. You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely on your instincts to find people who hate losing and know how to win.

Jerry West

#100. You can hurt someone and not even know it.

Bob Dylan