Quotes about Loss
Nothing loved is ever lost or perished.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It was a star, Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning.
— Madeleine L'Engle
There're a lot of things you don't understand. Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. I came looking for you, and then when I found out where you were, suddenly it didn't seem worth it. It wasn't you. It was everything and nothing. Life. Ma's death. Talking to anybody. Not worth it
— Madeleine L'Engle
For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the rider was lost; for want of a rider the message was lost; for want of the message the battle was lost; for want of the battle the war was lost; for want of the war the kingdom was lost; and all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
— Madeleine L'Engle
we would, all of us, be less than we are if it weren't for those we love and who've loved us who have died.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You know when you cut yourself really badly, it doesn't hurt for a while. You don't feel anything. Death- our reaction to death- is sort of like that. You don't feel anything at all. And then, later on, you begin to hurt.
— Madeleine L'Engle
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
— Billy Graham
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
— William Wordsworth
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
— Hilaire Belloc
Our love one's are never gone, they have just popped into another room.
— Billie Jean King
Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
what intimacy of fellowship, to what wondrous oneness of life and interest, He invited them when He said, Abide in me. This is not only an unspeakable loss to themselves, but the Church and the world suffer in what they lose. If we ask the reason why those who have indeed accepted the Savior, and been made partakers of the renewing of the Holy Ghost
— Andrew Murray