Quotes about Loss

We lost my dad in 2009 to leukemia. He taught me everything I know, and I love him very much.

When I was young I lost everything.

Viruses were evil incarnate that added to the world's suffering and created useless deaths.

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.

Stories live and die on a single question: What's at stake? If nothing can be gained or lost, nobody cares.

We must show people the cost of not doing business with us.

PERHAPS ONE OF the reasons I've avoided having a clear ambition is that second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose. It's always been this way.

The family of Abraham will no longer feel temptations, and the family of Job will not feel afflictions. The family of David will no longer mourn loss and death, the family of Paul will not feel thorns in the flesh, and the family of Lazarus will no longer be afflicted by poverty and sores.

They love us, heal us, teach us, make us laugh and sometimes break our hearts with their passing.

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.