Quotes about Loss

The most common myth about money is that having more will make me more secure. It won't. Wealth can be lost instantly through a variety of uncontrollable factors. Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you — your relationship with God.

If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

She died, and left to me This heath, this calm and quiet scene, The memory of what has been, And never more will be.

Yet in the agony of my spirit in surrendering such a treasure I feel a thousand times richer than if I had never possessed it.

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind;

O'Captain, My Captain.