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Quotes About Loss

How can I live without thee, how forego Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined, To live again in these wild woods forlorn? Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no, no, I feel The link of nature draw me: flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
~ John Milton
So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
~ John Milton
Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!
~ John Milton
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.
~ John Milton
You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.
~ Leonard Cohen
I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality.
~ Keanu Reeves
No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning.
~ Jen Lancaster
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
~ Joni Mitchell
For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
~ Thomas Jefferson
We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss of species anywhere in the world, they're important.
~ Richard Di Natale
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
~ Anna Freud
So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.
~ James Hollis
In reality, if he had lived, I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience.
~ Frances Bean Cobain
We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.
~ John Carpenter
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
~ Bob Geldof
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.
~ Roger Ebert
All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.
~ David Emerald Womeldorff
Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Change often involves loss, so change can be a risky experience.
~ John Medina
I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.
~ Daniel Radcliffe