Quotes about Loss

I lost my wife to cancer and I saw the impact of telling my story - this is what happened, this is what God did and why he was faithful.

Where have those flowers and butterflies all gone That science may have staked the future on? He seems to say the reason why so much Should come to nothing must be fairly faced.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

To be cut off by the sword of injured friendship is the most dreadful of all deaths, next to suicide.

Though she never moved, she was more alive than I. In the light of her beauty and strength, I realized what I had lost. Because of fear, I had forfeited strength, life, and beauty. I had lost a sense of my true self, and with that loss so much of what God wanted for me was yet unrealized.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

Loss of worldly riches is better than loss of heavenly treasures.

Twenty-two years eight months and four days from that moment, a promising young Alpha- Minus administrator at Mwanza-Mwanza was to die of trypanosomiasis - the first case for over half a century. Sighing, Lenina went on with her work.

It's amazing what we lose in life by listening to fear, instead of listening to God.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.