Quotes about Loss

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

Thus, though it is not every creature that can be blessed (for beasts, trees, stones, and things of that kind have not this capacity), yet that creature which has the capacity cannot be blessed of itself, since it is created out of nothing, but only by Him by whom it has been created. For it is blessed by the possession of that whose loss makes it miserable. He, then, who is blessed not in another, but in himself, cannot be miserable, because he cannot lose himself.

And yet there succeeded, not indeed other griefs, yet the causes of other griefs. For whence had that former grief so easily reached my very inmost soul, but that I had poured out my soul upon the dust, in loving one that must die, as if he would never die?

For evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name "evil."

And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.

the Sioux did not rejoice. Too many of their own had been lost that day. When

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

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.

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

He who loves has conquered the world and has no fear of losing anything. True love is an act of total surrender.

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.