Been Quote by Jill Davis

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

— Deborah Sampson

Processes of loss - when you have children you just keep going.

— Keyshia Cole

When we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away…

— Mikhail Lermontov

People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends…

— Michael Robotham

“There’s something life-giving about children, even in a time of mourning, something that helps people see beyond their immediate losses.”

— J.A. Jance

We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses…

— Judith Viorst

I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an…

— Dan Chaon

“Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and increasing constraint…

— Frederick Buell

I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.

— Fernando Pessoa

Loss provides an opportunity to take inventory of our lives, to reconsider priorities, and to determine new directions.

— Gerald Lawson Sittser

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

— Travis Knight

I had lost my sister recently, too, which meant that my whole family was gone. I was the baby of the family. There were…

— Maurice Sendak