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Quotes About Loss

Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.
~ Roger Zelazny
The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.
~ Unknown
The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
~ Publilius Syrus
You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest
~ Unknown
My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.
~ Arabella Weir
Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.
~ Emily Dickinson
It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.
~ Anne Roiphe
EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes.
~ John Green
I, first of all, felt a great sense of loss, a sense of condolence for the friends that I had that were killed in that, for the loved ones.
~ Hugh Shelton
How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.
~ Bob Dylan
The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
~ William Hazlitt
It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
~ Tom Clancy
When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.
~ Seneca the Younger
Old as she was she still missed her daddy sometimes.
~ Gloria Naylor
When our friends are alive we see the good qualities they lack dead we remember only those they possessed.
~ Unknown
Aw, how could he Jorge Orta lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico.
~ Harry Caray
My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.
~ Norm MacDonald
A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.
~ Jesse Livermore
Greatest loss is losing yourself in the process of achieving something.
~ Unknown
I don't know if you know who you are until you lose who you are.
~ Unknown
You may lose the people you love, you may lose the thing you have. But no matter what happens never lose yourself.
~ Unknown