Loss Quote by Tom Perrotta

“And it was then that Cohen began to feel the weight of the others in this house on this dot on the map below…

— Michael Farris Smith

“He couldn't be more than twenty-five, but he obviously lived enough to have things to regret. He looked like he'd taken a long fall…

— Jonathan Lethem

“It had not occured to me to mourn losing those things until now. I had done each of those things, somewhere along the way,…

— Katherine Center

“Loss is never forgotten. But the weight of it dissipates with time.”

— Bella Forrest

“I couldn't have imagined how much more there was to lose.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“He did not think of the ten years: What remained of them tonight was only a feeling which he could not name, except that…

— Ayn Rand

“Bob was not yet twenty, after all, while Jesse was thirty-four and in physical decline; each calendar week subtracted from Jesse the powers that…

— Ron Hansen

“He could not even take comfort in knowing that he had spent most of his adult life in dread of calamities had not materialized,…

— J.K. Rowling

“The thing was, all mortals were going to lose the ones they loved. It was the way life worked. But for most of the…

— J.R. Ward

“Despite everything he had or might have (except, of course, another human being), life gave no promise of improvement or even of change. The…

— Richard Matheson

“But now his life had weight.”

— Tom Franklin

“So I balanced the weight of my past against the promise of my future.”

— J. Kenner