Home / Quotes / Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

“Loss is nothing compared to the loss of life.”

Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

Author

Lailah Gifty Akita

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Lailah Gifty Akita. more

You May Also Like

“I will miss you like I miss everything in these moth wing lives of ours, built inside each other’s dreams, out of things that go away.”

Loss Grief Suicide Sor The Stages Of Rot

Author:Eden Tijerina

“I know how to handle misfortune, how to take bad news, I can minimize injustice, lighten up God's absence, or pick the widow's veil that suits your face.”

Poetry Loss Grief Poem Injustice Bad News Misfortune

Book:View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

“My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all. Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due. May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade. My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second.”

Happiness Death Poetry Time Chance Loss Grief Poem Mourning Necessity

Book:View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

“Since you died the house style could best be described as leaves that cling to trees too long into winter”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Poem Winter Mourning

Book:13th Balloon

Source: 13th Balloon

“William S. Burroughs said cut into the present and the future leaks out When I cut into the past what leaks out is you”

Past Death Poetry Loss Grief Poem Mourning Present

Book:13th Balloon

Source: 13th Balloon

“What are we to do in this time? How do we function? How do we not completely lose it? I choose to use my #pen to cut open my shell to release the pus of pain and trauma and loss mixed with sludge-like #ash.”

Pain Loss Trauma Grief And Loss Writing Process 2020 Volcano St Vincent Dealing With Loss

Book:Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems

Source: Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems

“And my work in this life? None of this will go unrecorded. I will see and say all of it, as clearly and deeply as I can, re-entering, lifting experience in the direction of another dimension of time, where everything I have loved can be known again, more fully, that my joy in it might increase as I take the measure of what I have lost. And my grief may increase as well; Alex and I loved each other, and held together through a troubled and volatile relation as best we could, and in a while we ended it. I truly wish him every good in this life. Sweet hell? Maybe, but so be it.”

Love Loss Grief Letting Go Ending

Book:What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life

Source: What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life

“Does it stop hurting because I have to start forgetting about them?” he asked, his lip quivering. “Because I don’t want to forget them.”

Friendship Loss Grief Death And Dying Orphan Middle Grade Tween

Book:Sorry For Your Loss

Source: Sorry For Your Loss

“Some types of growth are actually types of decay.”

Loss Grief Memoir Loss Of Mother

Book:The Mourning Report

Source: The Mourning Report

“Small children are great acceptors. They don't understand shame, or the need to hide things.”

Book:THE SHINING

Source: THE SHINING