Quotes About Loss

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.

Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it.

Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.

Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything is lost. And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left.

In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here. But you don't lose any spiritual knowledge that you have gained in this or any other lifetime. It is inside you.

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever it is they may have gained.

Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.

It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

There is no sacrifice for nothing

When the last leaf falls, what will die within us?

Good be- gets bad, something lost leads to found...

Freedom is the natural state, acceptance of bonds is a choice we make. We prefer to accept loss of freedom to losing something much less valuable but which we are not willing to sacrifice.