Quotes About Loss

But now I was a rich man, three things have left me bare; dice, wine, and women, these three have made me poor.

Go to the law for a sheep and lose your cow

Though divorce be hard, two never met but had to part.

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.

How the stars shone. How sweet the earth smelled. The orchard gate creaked, and a footstep pressed on the sand. And she entered, fragrant as a flower, and fell into my arms. Oh, sweet kisses, lingering caresses. Slowly, trembling, I gazed upon her beauty. Now my dream of true love is lost forever. My last hour has flown, and I die, hopeless, and never have I loved life more.

Grief changes us forever. Rather than keeping that darkness in our heart, we have to learn to fill that place with beautiful memories forever.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

what you compromise to keep, you lose.

The tragedy of Tupac is that his untimely passing is representative of too many young black men in this country....If we had lost Oprah Winfrey at 25, we would have lost a relatively unknown, local market TV anchorwoman. If we had lost Malcolm X at 25, we would have lost a hustler named Detroit Red. And if I had left the world at 25, we would have lost a big-band trumpet player and aspiring composer--just a sliver of my eventual life potential.

You can win a million battles but you can only lose one.

lost her only son—and Elijah to blame.

destiny, n. I know this word so close to my heart that it hurts.

Death was like the thirteenth person in the household, crowding out all other thoughts, making it hard to breathe.

Gains for all our losses There are gains for all our losses There are balms for all our pains But when youth the dream departs It takes some thing from our hearts And never comes again We are stronger and are better Under manhood's sterner reign Still we feel that some thing sweet Followed youth with flying feet And will never come again. Some thing beautiful has vanished And we sigh for it in vain We behold it every where---- On the earth and in the air---- But it never comes again.

It is a good thing I no longer have a heart, because if I did, it would surely break.

Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.

What good is fighting if what you are fighting for is lost?

Are you the one named Alyse? For he calls that name in his sleep." "No, that is his beloved sister, dead these past three years." The depth of my disappointment that it is not my name he calls takes me completely by surprise. "Ah," the old nun says sympathetically, as if she somehow knows what I am feeling. "Then perhaps you are Sybella. That is the name he asks for when he is awake.

War is the great deflowerer of youth.

No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.

No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been.

She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.

Can you imagine how lonely she must have felt when she received that phone call? Your lover has just died, your companion has abandoned you, but don't you dare make an inappropriate sound, because your family is around. No one to touch you the way he did, no one to understand you, no one to hug you to sleep, but don't dare allow your face to show a glint of grief. The cutting pain of feeling alone amid loved ones.

Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.