Quotes About Loss

My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse & Hound' magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously.

Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

We can see loss as something missing, but that missing space can be filled with something else, and that creates healing.

In Spain, playing beautifully is what counts, even if you lose.

Heartbreak, death and loss were shared between us, but renewal, commitment and strength as well.

Heartache, guilt, loss, grief, these things, too, are monsters.

I have loved and lost many a time, but along the way I have found myself.

Here, falling in love can be an event, a proclamation without acknowledging that everyone you love could die an awful death, that loving someone is an acceptance of impending loss.

There is no loss bigger than losing your manuscript, not even love.

There cannot be love without loss, just like there cannot be happiness without sadness, or light without dark.

I didn't know yet that you can always find that perfect moment right before everything shatters.

Ties to people on the other side of the storm could be severed. Love could bud, then wither and die without a bloom when the storm ended and reality bled back in.

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior

To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.

But she's still afraid that the more she misses him--his face, his skin, the way he looked at her--and the more hope she has that she'll see him again, the more she has to lose.

Death is only final when you know you're not going to see them again!

That's how it felt – that the loss of him had a life of its own. I lived with it as I could have lived with him. Some nights it was quiet and sometimes it pounded on my door.

Eternity is a long time and it doesn't always work out that way, " Jareth says, a bit bitterly. "It's worse to love someone and then lose them, then to never love at all.

Love is an engraved invitation to grief.

Forgive my grief for one removedThy creature whom I found so fairI trust he lives in Thee and thereI find him worthier to be loved.

If he didn't love so deeply, he couldn't grieve so deeply. But he's drowning in it.

Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward.