Quotes about Loss

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?

If tears could build a stairway, And memories a lane, I'd walk right up to Heaven And bring you home again.

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out the window.

Then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Her sun is gone down while it was yet day.

There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.

Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.