Quotes About Loss

The reality is that my stepfather was like a father to me and watching him die from a sudden heart attack was one of the hardest things I have ever gone through.

Ehe, 24 hours have gone from my father dead. It was yesterday, he suicided yesteday in the morning. Even and more than 24 hours!

I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.

My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.

When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

I can't imagine any greater fear Than waking up without you here And though the sun would still shine on My whole world would all be gone

Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.

I completely lost everything, but I gained everything because I lost the fear.

At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.

You know that you've found something amazing, and you want to hold on to it forever; and every second after you have it, you fear the moment you might lose it.

In grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?

Some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart.

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.