Quotes about Loss

Don't get me wrong: grief sucks, it really does. Unfortunately, though, avoiding it robs us of life, of the now, of a sense of living spirit.

We have all we need to come through. Against all odds, no matter what we've lost, no matter what messes we've made over time, no matter how dark the night, we offer and are offered kindness, soul, light, and food, which create breath and spaciousness, which create hope, sufficient unto the day.

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.

I have experienced loss in my life, but the thing that brings you back is your faith.

When you have a major loss in your life, the first thing you need to do is tell God exactly how you feel.

It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.

Grief is a form of validation; it says the wound mattered. It mattered. You mattered. That's not the way life was supposed to go.

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one who calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.

The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.