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Quotes About Loss

Maybe is wasn't love so much as a fear of losing everything I'd accomplished. I was afraid to let go.
~ Dee Williams
I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
~ Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
Fear only what you lost from not sharing
~ Freedom Goodbird
The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.
~ Shannon L. Alder
I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family.
~ Jessica Fortunato, Sacrifice
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears
~ Unknown
I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.
~ Chester W. Nimitz
Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.
~ J.A. Konrath
It seemed impossible that there could be people in the world who still desired food, who laughed, who neither knew nor cared that Sirius Black was gone forever.
~ J. K. Rowling
When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.
~ Timothy Keller
Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
~ Louis L'Amour
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
~ Seneca the Elder
Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.
~ Jonathan Tropper
For everything you have missed you have gained something else.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
~ Janis Joplin
The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
~ Mac Thornberry
Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.
~ Ronald Reagan
Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.
~ Thomas Sowell
Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again
~ Ronald Reagan
As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
~ Steve Forbes
This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club