Quotes About Loss

The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.

I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.

you dont know what you got till its gone

It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.

Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to remember that survival is a gift.

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

Grief is nature's most powerful aphrodisiac.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It's those that bring us grief that linger.

A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

Where have all the flowers gone

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.

There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?

Human nature is so complicated. Those who have little, want a lot. Those who have a lot, think others have more. Those who lose, blame others for the loss.

How things change, ' I say, 'how strange that, even when all is lost, we can still find beauty in simple things.