Quotes about Loss

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.

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.

Mother, you had me, but I never had you.

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

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.

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.