Quotes About Loss

Get rid of the things that make you fragile We're taking the negative route for this exercise. Ask yourself: What makes me fragile? Certain people , things , and habits generate losses for us and make us vulnerable. Who and what are they? When we make our New Year's resolutions, we tend to emphasize adding new challenges to our lives. It's great to have this kind of objective, but setting " good riddance " goals can have an even bigger impact.

A?açtan dü?mek üzere olan bir yaprak çok ?airanedir. Çünkü ya?am?n özünü gözler önüne serer. Yaln?zca kaybedebilece?imiz ?eyleri severiz.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, someting is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? MARK 8:36

When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of great love.

It is possible through sin to harden our hearts against God so long that we lose all desire for God. The Scripture says: "God also gave them up" [Romans 1:24 KJV].

To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose . . . a time to gain, and a time to lose" (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 6 NKJV). In times of loss there are lessons to be gained. Let's not miss the purposes of God even in times of sorrow and disappointment, for He is always with us on our journey.

What shall it profit a man, if he . . . gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Mark 8:36).

Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation.

There are countless opportunities to comfort others, not only in the loss of a loved one, but also in the daily distress that so often creeps into our lives.

Grief comes with many losses. Whatever its cause, grief will come to all of us.

Grief which is not dealt with properly can cause us to lose our perspective on life.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

We discussed the present, but what we really meant was our past. Both of us were living among the living, yet we didn't really belong with them- we were actually the dead, on stolen leave, accidental survivors who got left behind in life.

The end of all things--a book, a life, a summer, a marriage, the last bite of cake, the last of innocence lost, a love affair--is always sad, at least a little bit sad, because it is the end, the end of that.

I might like to believe that every day, every hour, every minute of every hour of every day with Henry was *not* the happiest time I ever knew. I might like to believe that I am remembering it that way only because the happiest time ever makes it a better story. Because that's all you have left after people are gone from you, some things and some stories.

Except, how do we go on when what was best is behind us? When the longing is not for someone you have not yet met, but for someone you knew and lost?

That kind of empty; when hope is no longer deferred but evaporated, and try as you might, and you do try, you can't find the pleasure in the little things. A fine meal, good music, a breathtaking view of the landscape, the smell of the ocean, snow falling, it all adds up to a storehouse of memories and regrets, and you can't imagine there's a perchance left to be had.

Sleep no more, Cypris, beneath thy purple coverlet, but awake to thy misery; put on the sable robe and fall to beating thy breast, and tell it to the world: The beauteous Adonis is dead.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

You seem so far away though you are standing near. You made me feel alive, but something died I fear. I really tried to make it out, I wish I understood. What happened to our love, it used to be so good.

Det fineste av alt vrakgods, er sola som hver dag forsvinner i havet.

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.