Peter S. Beagle Quotes

I hated to lose.

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it.

If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony.

You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be around in awhile. Closure is impossible; that's the heart of the grief you will carry with you for the rest of your life.

Madge: I don't know why I keep shouting at them. The Doctor: Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they're going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what's the point in them being happy now if they're going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they are going to be sad later. ~ The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe

I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

Pearls mean tears.

Do not weep for me.

In general, I think people are worried about saying the wrong thing to any grieving person. On a very basic level, I think they're frightened of touching off tears or sorrow, as though someone tearing up at the mention of unhappy news would be the mentioner's fault.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

When it was all over, and I was left alone in my office, I put my face in my hands and wept. I could do nothing less.

When something you love gets taken away, it hurts you.

A loss feels like a loss.

I know what it's like to lose.

We are deeply sorry for the loss of anything - from your luggage to, of course, a loved pet.

I know how it feels to lose.

Whenever we lose, it is a sad day.

That's why I'm never happy. Every tragedy, I really feel very painful - especially about a child or old people. This is reality. We try to close eyes and ears, but it's happening every second, and somehow, unfortunately, I feel a connection.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.