Quotes About Loss

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. —G. K. CHESTERTON

I would almost rather we had died that day than to have found ourselves here, lost somewhere between the dreaming and the coming true.

All at once she could hear the sullen patter of the rain and sense the sigh of the wind behind it. She remembered the sound, because it had rained like that the day Mom was buried, the day they lowered her into that little rectangle of darkness.

RICH I'm lamenting. I've lost my innocence. CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you've only just noticed, it can't have been very important to you.

Overheard at a gravesite: "And they all said 'I'm sorry for your loss,' as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me."

Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.

'Twas here we loved in sunnier days and greener; And now, in this disconsolate decay, I come to see her where I most have seen her, And touch the happier day.

And dead leaves wrap the fruits that summer planted: And birds that love the South have taken wing. The wanderer, loitering o'er the scene enchanted, Weeps, and despairs of spring.

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

Dear dead women, with such hair, too—what's become of all the goldUsed to hang and brush their bosoms? I feel chilly and grown old.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

It is better to love and lose then never love -

But, oh! fell death's untimely frost,That nipt my flower sae early.

Even thou who mournst the daisies fate, that fate is thine.

Even tho who mournst the daisies fate, that fate is thine.

Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, that fate is thine.

the 1917 Revolution was brought on by a long losing war in which an underequipped and poorly led Russian peasant army suffered an estimated seven million casualties in dead, wounded, and missing.

Little boy crying. "My daddy has been dead for 10 yrs, but he came to town to vote for Lyndon Johnson, and didn't come to see me.

Suddenly I wanted the earlier version back, but there was no retrieving it. When I blurred the lines to soften them it was as if she began to disappear.

Vanished children, I can't think where I lost them...

When I blurred the lines to soften them it was as if she began to disappear.

There are occasions when losing is a victory, so long as there is a fight.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.