Quotes About Loss

Hands have not tears to flow.

Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

Those lose least who have least to lose.

I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

But where are the snows of yesteryear?

Home they brought her warrior dead.

The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.

The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue hath it.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part, that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.

The past is a funeral gone by.

The past is never completely lost, khowever extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.

I have always been waiting for something better-sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me.

The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.