Quotes About Loss

When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN'T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

It doesn't hurt to lose my crown, it hurts to lose.

Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

How are the mighty fallen!

Peace is worth far more than anything they might take from you.

I once thought losing my confidence was the worst thing that could happen; then I lost my faith.

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!

When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.

Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it.

Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.

I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.