Quotes about Loss
For evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name "evil."
- St. Augustine
And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.
- St. Augustine
the Sioux did not rejoice. Too many of their own had been lost that day. When
- Stephanie Grace Whitson
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
- Erica Jong
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
- Maya Angelou
God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
- Anais Nin
He who loves has conquered the world and has no fear of losing anything. True love is an act of total surrender.
- Paulo Coelho
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
- Graham Greene
The hardest thing of love is to let go.
- Isabel Allende
Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.
- James Howell
Do not allow fear to bind you up, dear one. You will only lose what you already have.
- Ted Dekker