Quotes about Loss
Many things lost in life can be restored; however, time misused can never be recovered. Once the sun goes down, the day is forever gone.
— John Bevere
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
— Thomas a Kempis
Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
— Mark Twain
But he had been so much hurt that something inside him had perished, some of his feelings had gone. There was a blank of insentience.
— DH Lawrence
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
— Genesis 35:19
Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
— Genesis 48:7
On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
— 2 Samuel 12:18
Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
— Job 16:7
The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.
— Margaret Atwood
Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.
— Oswald Chambers
Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation.
— Billy Graham
Was I to have never parted from thy side? As good have grown there still a lifeless rib. Paradise Lost, Book IX, l. 1154
— John Milton