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Quotes About Loss

Thank GOD for what you have now because one day GOD can take it away.
~ Unknown
Blessings are disguised as loss and disappointment. Wisdom and revelation are disguised as emptiness and despair. Doorways to paradise are disguised as dirt roads and dead ends.
~ Barbara De Angelis
Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].
~ Alice Winocour
I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.
~ Ann Coulter
...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.
~ Charlotte Bronte
…the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I thought. The worst thing already had.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Death has been here and where death has been no light shall ever be .
~ Courtney Summers
Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.
~ Dan Simmons
Death haunts everyone and never fails.
~ David Gemmell
I'm pretty afraid of death. People have told me that they're not afraid, but I certainly am. The things of the world matter to me. It's hard to imagine letting go.
~ Unknown
And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment.
~ Donald Evans
Death devours all lovely things.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
I think death is a big deal, obviously.
~ Edward Kitsis
Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
~ William Hazlitt
For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.
~ William Butler Yeats
Death is not the worst sorrow.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.
~ Eloisa James
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.
~ William Shatner
You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.
~ Emily Dickinson
Nothing, I know, had any chance against death.
~ Virginia Woolf
It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.
~ Eric Holder
The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death.
~ Esther Hicks
Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewaile anothers.
~ George Herbert
I grieve for every death.
~ George P. Bush