If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost. Read Summary
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. Read Summary
We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete. Read Summary
I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Read Summary
Widow. The word consumes itself. Read Summary
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. Read Summary
Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time. Read Summary
Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love. Read Summary
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Read Summary
After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained. Read Summary
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. Read Summary
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. Read Summary
My son has died of AIDS. Read Summary
The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails. Read Summary
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. Read Summary
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. Read Summary
Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks. Read Summary
When the people you love are gone, you're alone. Read Summary
When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself. Read Summary
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? Read Summary