Quotes about Loss
And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.
— St. Augustine
the Sioux did not rejoice. Too many of their own had been lost that day. When
— Stephanie Grace Whitson
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
— Erica Jong
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
— Maya Angelou
God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
— Anais Nin
He who loves has conquered the world and has no fear of losing anything. True love is an act of total surrender.
— Paulo Coelho
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
— Graham Greene
The hardest thing of love is to let go.
— Isabel Allende
Do not allow fear to bind you up, dear one. You will only lose what you already have.
— Ted Dekker
Our bodies, our relationships, our lives. We're terrified of losing those things because we think they make us who we are. Fear of loss keeps it all in place. Dying means letting go of all of it, our entire life in the world, to know ourselves beyond the images and relationships apparent in this world.
— Ted Dekker
Because the real wolf comes to kill. To steal. To destroy.
— Ted Dekker