Quotes about Loss
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.
- Mark Twain
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
- Publilius Syrus
The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
- Jon Bon Jovi
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.
- Isabel Allende
Mother, you had me, but I never had you.
- John Lennon
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.
- James Allen
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
- Helen Keller
Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.
- Graham Greene
Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.
- Andrew Jackson
The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.
- Barack Obama
Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
- William Faulkner