Quotes about Loss
In my childhood diary I wrote: "I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.
- Anais Nin
Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.
- George Eliot
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
- Henry Ward Beecher
What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too many of us never understand what we owe to our dear ones until there remains no further opportunity of paying love's debt.
- J.R. Miller
You shall leave everything you love.
- Dante Alighieri
People destroy what they love.
- Paulo Coelho
If there were no Love, there'd be no grief.
- Zig Ziglar
In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.
- John Updike
When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of great love.
- Billy Graham
We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.
- Max Lucado
Money gone. Expectations dashed. Friends vanished. Who's left? God is.
- Max Lucado