Dean Koontz

"God is never cruel. There is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we did not, we would have no compassion for others, would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one."

Dean Koontz

Melissa Bank

"I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever love that way again."

Melissa Bank (The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing)

Alyson Noel (Evermore)

"I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence."

Alyson Noel (Evermore)

Deb Caletti

"What they say is, life goes on, and that is mostly true. The mail is delivered and the Christmas lights go up and the ladders get put away and you open yet another box of cereal. In time, the volume of my feelings would be turned down in gentle increments to a near quiet, and yet the record would still spin, always spin. There was a place for Rose so deeply within myself that it was another country, another world, with its own light and time and its own language. A lost world. Yet its foundations and edges were permanent-the ruins of Pompeii, the glorious remnants or the Forum. A world that endured, even as it retreated into the past. A world visited, imagined, ever waiting, yet asleep"

Deb Caletti

Anne Lamott

"You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp."

Anne Lamott

G.K. Chesterton

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."

G.K. Chesterton

Anatole France

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."

Anatole France

Chuck Palahniuk

"You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways."

Chuck Palahniuk

C.S. Lewis

"Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone."

C.S. Lewis

Stephenie Meyer

"You are my life. You're the only thing it would hurt to lose."

Stephenie Meyer

George Lucas

"Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose."

George Lucas

Marilynne Robinson

"To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again."

Marilynne Robinson

Mitch Albom

"Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back."

Mitch Albom

Jeanette Winterson

"You’ll get over it. It’s the clichés that cause the trouble.
To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever.
You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never loses. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?"

Jeanette Winterson

Jodi Picoult

"Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall."

Jodi Picoult

aimgirl

" I said that I don't need you
But I'm a liar
I swear I do
I do

Strip away vanity
Just as you consume me
Broken smile, starless sky
Save it all,
Say goodbye ... "

aimgirl

Isabel Allende

"Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars."

"When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity."

Isabel Allende

Colm Tóibín

"..Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and hollowness and a feeling as close to anger as I will ever be able to imagine. "

Colm Tóibín

Alice Munro

"This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else and you remember, and you think, soon. Then it becomes something that is just there, in the closet, and other things get crowded in front of it and on top of it and finally you don't think about it at all. The thing that was your bright treasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember .... "

Alice Munro

Unknown

"Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart."

Unknown