Quotes about Loss

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

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.

Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

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.

The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

As the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre observed, several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.