Quotes about Loss

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.

Bitterness is one of the deadliest emotions we ever feel. You can't look forward when you're bitter, only backward—thinking about what you've lost, stuck in the past, despairing because it's gone. In the end, it devours all hope.

is it better not to fall in love at all, or to love someone for a little while, even if you have to say good-bye?

I will thank Him for all that He has given me, not curse Him for all that I've lost.

Bitterness is one of the deadliest emotions we ever feel. You can't look forward when you're bitter, only backward - thinking about what you've lost, stuck in the past, despairing because it's gone. In the end, it devours all hope.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

The roots of this friendship that once nourished me in deep places now ache with a barren flow. The conversations and connections have been hollowed out and replaced with a stabbing throb of a pierced soul. The arrow dug deep.

And the gaping hole left behind is in some ways worse than death. If their absence was caused by death, you would grieve their loss. But when their absence is caused by rejection, you not only grieve their loss but you also have to wrestle through the fact that they wanted this.

All I have to do is stand at the gravesite of my sister who died way too young and in way too much pain to be reminded that none of this is easy or tidy. Some things won't be fixed on this side of eternity; they just have to be walked through.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.