Loss Quotes

• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

  John Steinbeck

  Dark, Grieving, Light

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.247, Penguin

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  The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  Walter Anderson

  Moving On, Thankful, Gratitude

  Walter Anderson (1997). “The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment”, Harpercollins

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• The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Pain, Heaven, Woe

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• You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Grief, Heart

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• The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you lose what you love remember to stay strong. Look out the window and remember life goes on.

  Drew Chadwick

  Life, Moving On, Encouraging

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• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

  Charles Dickens

  Grief, Grieving, Depth

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.151

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• Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Kings, Children

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.52, Univ of California Press

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• Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

  Gayle Forman

  Relationship, Break Up, Missing Someone

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Oct 07, 2015

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• Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Heart, Sadness

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• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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• As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• The glory of sport comes from dedication, determination and desire. Achieving success and personal glory in athletics has less to do with wins and losses than it does with learning how to prepare yourself so that at the end of the day, whether on the track or in the office, you know that there was nothing more you could have done to reach your ultimate goal.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Success, Sports, Determination

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• At first, it feels as if she has vanished forever, and all traces are destroyed. But later, when the pain of loss doesn't overwhelm all your other feelings, every time you think of her, or hear her voice in your head, or remember a happy time together, you realize she's still a part of you and will never be totally gone.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Pain, Thinking, Happy Times

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• Loss is like a closed road that forces us to turn around and find another way to our destination. Who knows what we will discover and see along the way.

  Gerald Lawson Sittser

  Inspirational, Life, Way

  Gerald Lawson Sittser, Jerry L. Sittser (1998). “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss”, p.130, Zondervan

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• A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

  Paul Valery

  Men, Lost Friendship, Gone

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• Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Change, Philosophical, Grief

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• The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.

  Ben Hur Lampman

  Dog, Heart, Best Place

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• The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

  Andy Rooney

  Book, Dieting, Weight

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• Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

  Rosanne Cash

  Grief, Suffering, Sorrow

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• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  Thomas Campbell

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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• Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.

  Brian Ruckley

  Letting Go, Memories, Heart

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