Quotes about Loss

Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.

what intimacy of fellowship, to what wondrous oneness of life and interest, He invited them when He said, Abide in me. This is not only an unspeakable loss to themselves, but the Church and the world suffer in what they lose. If we ask the reason why those who have indeed accepted the Savior, and been made partakers of the renewing of the Holy Ghost

Yet though these ways be lost, thou hast left one, Which is, immoderate grief that she is gone. But we may 'scape that sin, yet weep as much; Our tears are due because we are not such. Some tears, that knot of friends, her death must cost, Because the chain is broke, but no link lost.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost... my virginity.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.