Quotes about Loss

I think sometimes when things are taken away, then you don't realize how much fun it is to come out here and play this game. You can't play it forever, so I'm going to enjoy it.

Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over.

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

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.