Quotes about Loss

Divorce is not merely separating; it is the tearing apart of what was once joined together.

Ultimately everything God has ever said will come to pass. When we suffer loss like Eve did, we cannot allow past circumstances to abort future opportunity. If you have experienced loss in your life, God has a way of restoring things you thought you would never see again.

And she found the weight of grief at missing him eased somewhat by dwelling on what a blessing he'd been and how much poorer her life would be if she'd never known him.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

There will be people who will not be consoled for the loss of a cause which they believed to be holy.

All has happened to her that will happen to her. She has felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that is soaked.

He sleeps although so much he was denied. He lived and when his dear love left him died. It happened of itself, in the easy way that in the morning night time follows day

War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle always rises on naked corpses.

There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life.

He understood how to sit down and hold his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his love

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.