Quotes About Loss

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass, the earth, into the second, eternity.

The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.

Too many funerals, not enough graduations. Too many babyshowers, not enough weddings.

When you dont get what you want, you suffer. If you get it, you suffer too since you cant hold on to it forever.

Life teaches us to how to smile even when you lose the most precious thing for you in this world.

Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

You know life is worth the struggle when you look back on what you lost and realize what you have now is way better than before.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

That song, for me, is about drugs and alcohol and loss and love. It's about being proud of who you are, being proud of your situation and just being stoked that things are always going to get better or always gonna get worse and that's such a great thing. Every day is a new surprise.

Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.

A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

People who have lost relationships often wonder why they can't just let it be water under the bridge. It is water under the bridge - the trouble is we do not live on the bridge but in the river of life with its many twists and turns.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

We take a risk when we open our hearts because the truth is, if we open our hearts, we will get hurt. You cant open your heart and not have some hurt because youre in a human experience. Even if its the love of your life and you have many wonderful, deepening, growing, powerful years together, its a human experience and that person will pass over. Love takes courage. Be courageous.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

It really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in me. My heart sort of broke that day, and it will never be the same.

There is nothing certain in a mans life but that he must lose it.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins

Never have I seen a world without evil, but never have I either seen a world without good. Light and dark balanced, differences and religions set aside, we join in times of loss.