Quotes About Loss

You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what's going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss.

Ever has it been that loves knows not its own death until the hour of separation.

I did not have a happy family life a few years ago. I was divorced, and I was very alienated from my daughter, and I was out there cutting every ribbon and running around New York hosting events for different causes to supplant my loss because I didn't have a family to go home to. Now I don't want to be Mr. Show Business anymore.

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family.

"King David was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: 'O my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you – O Absalom: my son, my son!'"

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

David the shepherd by, and future king of Israel laments the death of his soul-mate and greatest friend, Jonathan. He cries, "I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me…"

"What will I do without a best friend?"

"You have taken from me my closest friends and have made me repulsive to them. I am confined and cannot escape; my eyes are dim with grief."

Best friends loan out DVDs knowing that they'll never be seen again.

I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'

You only know you love her when you let her go.

It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.

After your death I realized that life is short and some times brutal too. That one moment took away my everything but yes, you taught me lessons not by telling me but by implementing them. Lesson to smile no matter whatever you are going through, help others no matter what the situation is, be there for people in their bad times, accept the problems and face them. You made me strong enough to deal with people. I love you baba and I miss you so much.

We all lose friends.. we lose them in death, to distance and over time. But even though they may be lost, hope is not. The key is to keep them in your heart, and when the time is right, you can pick up the friendship right where you left off. Even the lost find their way home, when you leave the light on.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost.

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about – not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had.

Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source.

Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.

I have loved and I have lost and I'm starting to believe; it's okay. Sometimes what we "think" is best for us, is only the beginning of what is truly "meant" for us. And if I have loved, so deeply the wrong heart; I am content in knowing the greatest love I will ever experience, hasn't even begun yet.

Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I'm supposed to do right now. Right now I can't sleep. It's right now that I can't eat. Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he's not here. Right now all I seem to do is cry. I know all about time and wounds healing, but even if I had all the time in the world, I still don't know what to do with all this hurt right now.