Quotes about Loss

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

I did not die, and yet I lost life's breath

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!

How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.

And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.

No, he thought, when everything you do, you do too long, and do too late, you can't expect to find the people still there. The people all are gone. The party's over and you are with your hostess now. I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought.