Quotes About Loss

There is no fight without losing something important. All that is great requires sacrifice.

Those who love much risk losing everything at once without warning.

You can accept to lose everything in life, but not courage and time.

Faith gives us hope, so if faith is lost, hope flees away like mist in the wind. Loss of faith leads to loss of hope, which leads to despair. Life becomes pointless and without value.

Marriage is the grave of love.

One editorial summed up a general feeling: pupils were going to mourn the loss of this "natural" education that "made the world a wonderful place" and a return to schools bound by rules and "copy-book maxims." Still, parents were warned that they could be prosecuted if they did not remove their children from Victoria and Zula's school and return them to a school holding the required Certificate of Efficiency.

Sill. Their horses and weapons were confiscated, and they were imprisoned. In a field just

There is no love without loss. I hear the drums that vibrate to the heartbeat of the earth. They set me dancing. I see the clouds that wreathe the summits. They set me dreaming. I know the wonder of waves that shake the headlands. They awaken my soul. I hear the screams of eagles on the wind. And I ponder, what are these things to me who loves and does not reckon loss? Do I not keep the earth?

When the wild herds were destroyed, so too was the will of the Kiowa people; there was nothing to sustain them in spirit.

Wreckage' Had my bones, like the sun, been splintered on this canyon wall and burned among these buckled plates, this bright debris; had it been so, I should not have lingered so long among my losses. I should have come loudly, like a warrior, to my time.

Now love doesn't stop at death - or if it does, it's a pretty poor sort of love! In fact, grief could almost be defined as the form love takes when the object of love has been removed; it is love embracing an empty space, love kissing thin air and feeling the pain of nothingness. But there is no reason at all why love should discontinue the practice of holding the beloved in prayer before God.

expelled from the garden.

The first thing that is missing from the usual line of thought, then, is any attempt to show how Paul deals not just with "sin" itself, but with the idolatry that lies behind it and the ensuing loss of "glory.

I opened the telegram and said, 'He's dead.

Death's the discarder.

Presence of death standing by makes a sacrament of tenuous relationships.

Es imposible dominar todos los temores y las pérdidas con antelación. Siempre hay fuentes de desolación que no se toman en consideración porque nadie sabe cuáles serán.

how many times a heart could break before it was shattered into so many minute fragments there was no heart left at all.

L'exil accélère l'oubli. L'exil va vite. Il suffit de quelques mois parfois, d'une année ou deux, pour que le pays qui était le sien ne soit plus le même.

I don't want to lose my memories. Don't make me forget. I would rather die as Elena, than live as a shadow.

When you want something so bad it hurts," he said quietly, "and you bury it, bury it so deep that you convince yourself it no longer matters . . . and someone tells you you can have it, it's terrifying. What if you take the chance and you're wrong? What if you let yourself feel the loss and it's this huge pain and you can't put it back in the box?

For a hunter, her shields were surprisingly weak, as if she somehow still saw innocence in the world. Then she will kill you. She will make you mortal. Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?

She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad." "I bet" "I'm serious. I was heartbroken." "For how long?" "A whole week." An eternity in the life of a teenage boy.

Dearest Matthew, We buried your father today. Do you know what his last words were to me? "Damn stubborn woman.