Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph: killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. —Leonard Cohen More about this quote Tags: justice faith doubt loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. —Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements More about this quote Tags: life loss letting go Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. —Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells More about this quote Tags: relationships experience loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You don’t ever really let go, though. You don’t stop. You don’t stop hurting, you don’t stop loving. It doesn’t go away, you just keep living and eventually things get pushed into the background of your life so it’s not consuming you every day. And then one day you know you’re okay. It still hurts, you still miss that person. And yeah, you forget the details. The way she smelled, the way her mouth tasted, how her skin felt, the sound of her voice. It’s almost like a different life, a different person that loved her, was with her. But on a day-to-day level, you know you’re okay. Sort of. —Jasinda Wilder in Falling Into You More about this quote Tags: love memory loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whoever said it got easier with time was wrong, death never got easier. The pain dulls around your heart, numbing the spot the deceased inhabited in your chest—but it was never easier. Loss was still loss—a physical pain, a hurt that reaches deep inside you and smothers your soul, forever indenting their memory. —Kelsie Leverich in The Valentine’s Arrangement More about this quote Tags: memory soul pain heart loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When all else is lost, the future still remains. —Christian Nestell Bovee More about this quote Tags: future loss possibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. —Leo Buscaglia More about this quote Tags: love giving loss sharing receiving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? She would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss. —Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper More about this quote Tags: time childhood loss growing up Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. —Laurence J. Peter More about this quote Tags: love humor loss laundry chores Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is full of hundreds of beautiful things we can never possibly have time to discover, and there is no time to be unkind or envious or ungenerous, and no sense in enslaving the mind to the trivialities of the moment. For you can be equal to the greatness of life only by marching with it; not by seeking love but by giving it, nor seeking to be understood but learning to understand. And when it is all over, there will be an agony of remorse because one spared the effort and did not make more of that little span of opportunity; and knowing reality at last, who knows but that one will look back with unassuageable regret upon one's pitiful little faith. —Vivienne de Watteville More about this quote Tags: understanding love reality kindness beauty learning discovery regret faith loss effort greatness opportunity generosity envy agony remorse Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? —Erich Fromm More about this quote Tags: power identity loss possession control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a part of you is no longer whole. Some will never again love with that level of abandon where life is perceived as innocent and the threat of loss seems implausible. —Donna Lynn Hope More about this quote Tags: love life innocence heart loss sadness restraint Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death is not the greatest fear. Neither is loss. Living is. —Joel Peckham More about this quote Tags: fear living death loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are two things to remember about a revolution: first, we're gonna get our asses kicked, and second, we're gonna win. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: loss revolution defeat victory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. —Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You More about this quote Tags: now presence change loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email