Quotes About Loss

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.

It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

To pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose it.

I FELT HAPPINESS LIKE A BLIND, TILL I HAD A SATISFIED MIND.SORROW FOR WHAT I LOST, IS LIKE DREAMS THAT COST.

Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness

It perplexes me. How can one sad incident compensate ten happy incidents? Why? Happiness is losing.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.