Quotes about Loss

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

There is one day that has brought me unspeakable pain, & the effects of that day continue to cover & erode my world like rust. I suspect that someday the rust will eat through the joists & posts of my life & I will topple, literally as well as figuratively.

We can bemoan what we have lost, or we can be grateful to have been blessed with something to mourn.

The price of love is the risk of losing it." I frowned. "Is it worth the risk?" "I've thought a lot about that. I still think the greatest hurt isn't to lose love, it's the regret of never having it. To have never felt love, that would be true tragedy.

Grief is the truest evidence of love. And we should always be grateful to have something to love, even if it means that we have to lose it.

Suffering and loss have this extraordinary capacity to alert and awaken us to the gift that life is.

Life Lessons FROM LOSS If you experience loss, it doesn't means you lost. it means you've been blessed with an opportunity to take a moment, realize how special someone or something has been to you, and go through new doors that were closed to you before.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else's death.

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

If he didn't love so deeply, he couldn't grieve so deeply. But he's drowning in it.

The sun appeared over the hillside. "I'm tired, Tom." "It's okay to go home,' he choked. "Hold my hand?" His arms tightened around her and his fingers interlaced with hers. She closed her eyes against the brightness. "I love you." "I love you too," he whispered. Jennifer died feeling the warmth of the rising sun