Loss Quotes
Most popular loss quotes
God never removes something from our lives without replacing it with something far better.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
CONSOLATION GROOK Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made.
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
Blessings may appear under the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments; but let him have patience, and he will see them in their proper figures.
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent.
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
Our losses should frequently be put on the credit side.
I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
I thought grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that gradually receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.
Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.
The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say death is worse.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc.—is sure to be noticed.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.
One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find.
We only keep what we lose.
He that is robbed, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't, and he's not robbed at all.
If you sit down crying because the sun has set, you miss the privilege of seeing the stars. Sorrow for what you have lost should not make you neglect that which comes in its place.
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.
We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.
The lives we lead are determined, for better and worse, by our loss experiences.
When we think of loss we think of the loss, through death, of people we love. But loss is a far more encompassing theme in our life. For we lose not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.
No man can lose what he never had.
Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.
