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Quotes About Loss

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
~ Jean Paul Richter
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made.
~ Kathleen Norris
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
~ William Wordsworth
Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.
~ Ronald Blythe
Age steals away all things, even the mind.
~ Virgil
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
~ Joe Gores
He'd make a lovely corpse.
~ Charles Dickens
I made a killing in the stock market. My broker lost all my money, so I killed him.
~ Unknown
I was on a game show. When I lost, they gave me a lovely parting gift. It was a comb.
~ Unknown
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
~ Mark Twain
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
~ Ronald Reagan
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
~ Jim Fiebig
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
~ Ronald Reagan
He would make a lovely corpse.
~ Charles Dickens
I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.
~ Mickey Rooney
My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.
~ Rita Rudner
The person, who causes the downfall of a noble woman... who causes loss to his friend...who despite of his superiority is ignorant; is called a fallen man.
~ Unknown
We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in.
~ Colin Powell
Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms.
~ De Finod
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
~ Khalil Gibran
Precious moments are those that you cherish for the rest of your life because the people in them exist no more.
~ Unknown
I thought of you everyday. I thought about you yesterday, and days before that too. I think of you in silence, I think of you in day and night. I often talk about you. All I have are memories of you and some of your belongings. Your memory is a keepsake for me, from which I'll never part. God may had you in his arms. But I have you in my heart forever.
~ Unknown
The same way I could live when I didn't know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But the only difference is before knowing you I didn't miss you while now I do.
~ Unknown
Everyday I tell myself I need to get over you, But every night I find myself thinking about how much I want you back.
~ Unknown