Quotes about Loss

Fear is intensified by passionate love. The more I care about someone, the more I'm concerned about their welfare. The less we have to lose, in one sense, the easier it is to be "brave."

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

The journey of life - we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

Remember that lost time does not return.

I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.

We're not supposed to outlive our children. It goes against nature's plan of things.

Nineteen words I counted them. That's all he had to say to me. Nineteen meaningless little words. And that's when my father died to me--right there in the driveway.

Eternity puts loss in its place. Losses are temporary. Every setback and defeat is put in its place because of eternity. And then add to that the realization that the work of the Redeemer takes every bad situation and works it for our good. So not only is every loss temporary, it is actually reversed in its effect to become a blessing and even grounds for personal promotion and gain. And all of that pertains to loss. This is why every believer is able to live with constant hope.

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.

... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.