Quotes About Loss And Heartache

#1. Dealing with loss and heartache doesn't make you stronger. It only makes people think you are.

Kathy Lette

#2. None of our lives were perfect, we all had faced bumps in the road, loss, and heartache. But together we made our own mismatched kind of family.

Elizabeth Dennis

#3. Though sorrow may impede my heart,
It is of great love to have known you.

C. Elizabeth

#4. More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat ...

Saul Bellow

#5. I've decided. The next time I cry, it'll be for "someone special", and it'll definitely be "tears of happiness.

Mika Yamamori

#6. Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.

Dennis Lehane

#7. Think about it. There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss of there hadn't been love.

Amy Harmon

#8. I'm going to move on, while carrying these feelings with me.

Mika Yamamori

#9. Keeping busy is the hardest part. When I find myself still, clear of thoughts, I can still feel you holding me.

Karen Quan

#10. The sun was hot and bright. A day for fishing, for swimming, for playing tennis and having fun, and they put my Christopher in the ground.

V.C. Andrews

#11. I felt like an integral part of my being had just been ripped out of me, only to have it replaced with something that did not belong.

Theresa Smith

#12. I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church.

Justin Townes Earle

#13. There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss if there hadn't been love.

Amy Harmon

#14. You are everything I have in this world Gracie

Marisa Oldham

#15. After all the shit they'd gone through - the pain, the loss, the heartache, the straight up evil brutality that made them question everything they'd thought to be true and had nearly driven them apart for good - he knew he'd do anything for her. Steal anything, kill anyone, be anyone.

Madeline Sheehan

#16. You're gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together.

Karen Quan

#17. I stand, and wait among the sea foam. I swim in my own tears-I sing without my voice. I do not reach for higher ground, because I have lapped in the churning waters.

Meredith T. Taylor

#18. I've lost someone, too; someone I loved. I know how you feel."
- Does it get easier?
"Yes. But you'll never be the same again.

Richelle Mead

#19. If there were only one path to you, I'd take the heartache, the deaths, the loss, the pain ... the insanity. I'd spend an eternity in Hell for one single breath with you.

Jewel E. Ann

#20. Just as children have growing pains as their bodies work to attain maturity, as people's souls deepen and gain resonance it's the same thing. To be challenged, to stretch, to get stronger comes only with the hard stuff - loss, heartache, disappointment.

J.R. Ward

#21. Sometimes you're going to have to let one person go a thousand different times, a thousand different ways, and there's nothing pathetic or abnormal about that. You are human.

Heidi Priebe

#22. She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.

Jane Austen

#23. I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do.

V.C. Andrews

#24. The only time you ever really lose love is when you choose to let it go.

Jessica Fortunato

#25. There were many tears, many unsure times, many troubled moments. The fun memories were only a few, but even so, those memories will shine bright like stardust, and continue to shine on in my heart.

Mika Yamamori

#26. This is probably going to be one wound that can
never
be healed.

Mika Yamamori

#27. But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.

Dennis Lehane

#28. He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.

Michael Cunningham

#29. A love where no one gets hurt doesn't exist.

Mika Yamamori

#30. What I want to know is how you go on when you look around
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have.

Charlotte Eriksson

#31. At the end of your life, go out with a bruised-up, worn out heart that gave too much and loved too strongly and felt too fiercely.

Heidi Priebe

#32. I was the last of the four Dresden dolls. Only me... and I didn't want to be here.

V.C. Andrews

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

Ashly Lorenzana

#34. Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence.
What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

Joseph Conrad

#35. The wounds from that time have already become scabs.

Mika Yamamori

#36. When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you'll never get used to the "10 second heartbreak." That's the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember ...

Nina Guilbeau

#37. He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.

Phillip W. Simpson

#38. Only I had dry eyes, a dry heart.

V.C. Andrews

#39. What happens when you return
and find nothing
but a hollowed shell,
shingles and floor,
walls and echoes
and the light that lead you here
has now burned out
and the ones who built it
have traveled afar
and you cant go to them,
no matter what shoes you wear.

Kellie Elmore

#40. One lost easiest what one held in one's arms - never what one left.

Erich Maria Remarque

#41. It was a haunting tune, unresigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind and say goodbye.

Kristin Cashore

#42. Honor Lost

Ambulant sunshine pierced
the soot covered glass ~
the feeble man wandered by
in this ritual morning pass ...

Muse

#43. The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.

Catherine Marshall

#44. From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

Edgar Allan Poe

#45. Heartache, guilt, loss, grief, these things, too, are monsters.

Chelsey Philpot