Quotes About Loss

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood of loss.

Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.

America remembers. On this 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the nation honors those who were lost.

I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.

Everything that she valued had come to her through change, and through change she would one day lose everything. All except honor.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my [child] again within the arms of God.

Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.

Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

Sometimes hope is all we have, and to lose that is to lose all.

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.

Abandon every hope, you who enter.

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.

The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.

If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.

I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.