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Quotes About Loss

And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.
~ Judith Guest
As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.
~ Ariel Sharon
This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.
~ Madison Cawein
I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.
~ Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.
~ Zig Ziglar
I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost.
~ Joan Didion
It's deeply human to do both the worst things and the best things because of your fear of loss.
~ Cass Sunstein
And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.
~ Richard Ford
I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.
~ Sebastian Faulks, Engleby
Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.
~ Unknown
Yes, " I whisper so the others won't hear, "but being afraid is good because it means I still have more to lose.
~ Caroline George, The Vestige
Memories are what you have, when you've lost everything else. Dreams are what you have, when you forget the memories. And bliss is what you have when you give up both.
~ Unknown
No one ever loses anyone. We are all one soul that needs to continue growing and developing in order for the world to carry on and for us all to meet once again.
~ Unknown
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's what part of it means to be alive
~ Unknown
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...
~ Unknown
By mourning for a loss in past, we are allowing the problem to persist, grow and even take control over our entire life.
~ Unknown
I think the only reason people hold onto memories so tight is because memories are the only things that dont change when everybody else does.
~ Unknown
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
~ Unknown
It's difficult to forget someone who was yours and changed your life. But it's even more difficult to forget someone who was never yours, but yet change your life.
~ Unknown
It's not what you don't have or what you loss, but more of understanding through growth to appreciate true gifts you do have.
~ Unknown
Anyone who has lost a loved one knows that you don't recover. Instead, you learn to incorporate their absence and memories into your life and channel your emotional energy toward others, and eventually, your grief will walk beside you instead of consuming you.
~ Unknown
Experiencing the intense pangs of grief, it is so difficult to trust that we can be whole without that person or thing in our life. But we then learn over and over again that we can. We really can.
~ Unknown
When you see it, its leaving, when you need it, its gone, when you have no use for it at all, its right infront of you.
~ Unknown
Breakups hurt, but losing someone who doesn't respect and appreciate you is actually a gain, not a loss.
~ Unknown