Quotes About Loss

Everybody has lost somebody that they care about, or hopefully you havent, but thats part of life.

Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?

Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.

I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.

If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.

Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.

Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.

Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.

Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and changing to something else.

The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.

Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of.

A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.

There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.

Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?