Quotes About Painful Loss

#1. What feels like such a painful loss now will become something beautiful later on. You cannot escape your destiny. You can certainly try. People do so every day. They hold on tight, and the river just dries up.

Elizabeth Lesser

#2. It was impossible to look forward when one was constantly being reminded of painful loss.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. Only marriage combines all three forms of companionship - spouse is family, best friend, and permanent companion. This is why it is widely held that while the death of a child is the most painful loss, the death of a spouse is the most disorienting one.

Dennis Prager

#4. I'm feeling sick, but not the vomiting kind. Loss of independence is painful in ways no one can see.

Anonymous

#5. For a long time I spent my weary days in a fog of what might be and what has been and I guess you could say im still learning how to accept what is.

Nikki Rowe

#6. Please don't tell me, it was less painful than a broken backbone, a forgotten poem, a lost home.

Khadija Rupa

#7. There are few experiences in life as painful and brutal as the failure of a small business. For a small business conceived and nurtured by its owner is like a living, breathing child. Its loss is no less traumatic than losing a loved one.

William Manchee

#8. Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful - but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.

Jim Butcher

#9. We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past.

Bryant McGill

#10. One of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

Audrey Niffenegger

#11. The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

Abraham Maslow

#12. I take a deep breath. It doesn't begin to fill the void in my chest, a void that's been present since Saturday morning, a painful hollow reminder of my loss.

E.L. James

#13. 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

#14. I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict and painful resurrection, should have led me through their dark and devious ways to this new beginning.

Vera Brittain

#15. We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function , day in, day out. Immune to others' pain and loss.

Neil Gaiman

#16. This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been put to painful tests of existence, and still remained standing - but just barely.

Clare Vanderpool

#17. Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

Laozi

#18. The first day without you is painful in a way that is almost exquisite. I imagine quitting smokers must feel like this, or crash-dieters - the early determination, where the loss of what you have given up is replaced with the adrenaline of denial.

Louise Doughty

#19. Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

W. Somerset Maugham

#20. Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

Donald Hall

#21. WHE YOU FOCUS ON HEALING AND OVERCOME A TRAGEDY OR CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE, YOU BECOME A SURVIVOR, NOT A VICTIM ANYMORE.

Linda Alfiori

#22. It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

David Brooks

#23. I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.

Robin McKinley

#24. I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.

Annette Bening

#25. The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Maya Angelou

#26. I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until that point I'd lived in five different family configurations. Each one ended or changed through a death or some terrible loss.

Sharon Salzberg

#27. But the loss of possibilities was always undeniably painful.

Meg Wolitzer

#28. If I were to make a list, I would include the interceptions, the sacks, the really painful losses. Those times when I've been down, when I've been kicked around, I hold on to those. In a way those are the best times I've ever had, because that's when I've found out who I am. And what I want to be.

Brett Favre

#29. Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?

Joyce Rachelle

#30. One realizes the immortality of true love only after the lover dies

Kanza Javed

#31. Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

Eckhart Tolle

#32. After a major change in your life, either you get stuck in painful emotions or you take charge of your life and process your feelings to become emotionally stronger and resilient, the choice is yours.

Linda Alfiori

#33. 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

#34. The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.

John Lurie