Loss Quotes

Loss Quote of the day

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away.

What you love, you must love all the harder because someday it will be gone.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

And what will bow your shoulders downwill be the vicious and worthless company with whom you will fall into this abyss.

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Utterly, irrevocably, lost

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come back to you, that's all. Sometimes they come back.

Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

And I, could I stand byAnd see you freeze, Without my right of frost, Death's privilege?

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence—wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.

Anything you can acquire is only another thing you'll lose

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.

One gains by losing and loses by gaining.

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be, it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone.

A loss may be sometimes a gain.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

I don't understand how the pain of losing him can be a pale shadow in comparison to the pain of finding him again.

The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue.

You loved her, " Isobel

I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.

For a long time I spent my weary days in a fog of what might be and what has been and I guess you could say im still learning how to accept what is.

An anchor should be someone who is personally open and willing to communicate.

You cannot have a dream and expect someone else's faith to make it a reality for you. Habakuk 2:4

Love came from all directions. On paper, on screens, in dishes and words and deeds. We’re thinking of you every minute.I’m sorry.We’re sorry.We’re so sorry…