Quotes About Loss

Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry.

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.

And the gold of her ruined wedding dress.

Immediately after a divorce or a breakup, your mind whispers that there are plenty more fish in the sea, while your heart shouts that there is only one whoever-you-just-divorced-or-broke-up-with.

In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the month my father died.

You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.

For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

It's always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

Beware of the flight of Blessings, For nothing that runs away is returned.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.

If you don't gamble, you'll never win.

Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.