Quotes About Loss

A lot of the players I'm with, thank God, we're all still vertical. We've lost so many great players through the years, and we're still standing, as Elton John says.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.

Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God.

My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.

And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.

God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy

To lose one parent might be considered a misfortune, or a reason to deny God's existence at the least. To lose two looks like He may be up to something.

The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God.

Once faith dies, the death of hope follows hard on its heels.

God sends someone for each and every one of us to help with our loss. We just have to accept it.

God will restore all that you have lost in your life

Elvis is dead and I don't feel so good for myself.

It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.

Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way In this bright future you can't forget your past So dry your tears I say.

Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.

William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.

The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.