Quotes about Loss

You will give birth to more in the future than you've lost in the past.

Too often we don't realize how great we have it until something is taken away.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

Who has not seen a frail, clinging-vine type of woman, who upon the death of her husband strainghtens up and becomes an oak, around which the growing children twine their lives, and are forever greatful for such a mother? But this strength would never have come out and developed had it not been for the tears that watered the vine and made it into an oak.

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.

Dear Lord, I would have loved to have held my babies on my lap and tell them about you, but since I didn't get the chance, would you please hold them on your lap and tell them about me?