Loss Quotes

"There is no Death! What seems so is transition."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Never say of anything, 'I have lost it'; but, 'I have returned it.'"

"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."

Herodotus

“Never say of anything, "I have lost it," but, "I have returned it."

“When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.”

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind."

John Donne

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

"To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."

J. K. Rowling

“A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss. That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.”

Brad Pitt

"God gives us love. Something to love He lends us."

Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist."

Guy de Maupassant

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

“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.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.”

Joan Didion