Quotes about Loss
What kind of second-rate grief is it that permits them to walk?
- John Updike
I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."
- Al Gore
You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.
- Michael Jordan
[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.
- Teresa of Avila
I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.
- Lady Gaga
When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
- Marcus Aurelius
The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.
- Margaret Atwood
When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.
- Timothy Keller
For everything you have missed you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.
- Ronald Reagan
Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again
- Ronald Reagan