Quotes About Loss

They let the ground keep that ancestral treasure, gold under gravel, gone to earth, as useless to men now as it ever was.

No trembling harp, no tuned timber, no tumbling hawk swerving through the hall, no swift horse pawing the courtyard. Pillage and slaughter have emptied the earth of entire peoples. And so he mourned as he moved about the world, deserted and alone, lamenting his unhappiness day and night, until death's flood brimmed up in his heart.

What a tragic irony, that the more we understand of biology, the less we have of it to learn from and enjoy. What will be the legacy of this new century - to cherish and to protect Nature or to see butterflies and zebras and much more vanish into legend like the thylacine, moa and dodo?

Dispose of everything that was lost. There's no time to dream about something that won't come back. I must look forward. Forward.

The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

I had done a sitcom and a movie and hosted the Emmys, and all of a sudden, I lost everything. As someone put it at the time, I was suddenly like a Ferrari in neutral.

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away.

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

Time steals away without any inconvenience.

I've lost balls in every hazard and on every course I've tried. But when I lose a ball in the ball washer, it's time to take stock.

...even saying good-bye isn't enough. There's always one more thing you should have had the time to say, or do, or ask. There's always going to be that one missing piece.

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!

When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.

Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.

TIME is not a thing that's ours to lose.

Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.

They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.

At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.

Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

People die all the time. It's just that you're not around.