Quotes About Loss

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

History will be erased in the universal purgatory.

A fool and his money are quickly parted.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

God's power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

one of the most heartbreaking conditions of life on Earth is that most of the animals we love... die so long before we do.

Sadness isn't a kilesha , a habit pattern evoked by challenge. Sadness is what the mind feels when it is bereaved or bereft. All the wisdom in the world about the inevitability of change or the lawfulness of karma does not ease the heaviness in the mind that we feel when we lose someone, or something, we hold dear [p. 148].

The end of health or of vigor is sad. [p. 149]

People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won't happen for me. I won't survive you, Eva.

It was like a tornado, you want to hold on to everything you have, you don't want to let anything go.

What did my hands do before they held you?

In London her grief was retracted into sudden realisations of her loss. She had thought that sorrow would be her companion for many years and had planned for its entertainment. Now it visited her like sudden snow-storms, a hastening darkness across the sky, a transient whiteness and rigour cast upon her. She tried to recover the sentiment of renunciation which she had worn like a veil. It was gone, and gone with it was her sense of the dignity of bereavement.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall. Piper

How sad was it that grief had a shelf life, he thought. It's only fresh and raw for so long before it begins to spoil. And soon enough, it would be replaced by a newer, brighter heartache - the old one discarded and eventually forgotten.

I thought about things stolen from me. I thought about the thieves I had known.

A body forgets, but the heart remembers.

He wreaked havoc, but his path of destruction was invisible. The girls and I were the casualties of an amnesiac.

I had not thought death had undone so many.Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled.

Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swellAnd the profit and loss.