To lose someone or something you love can be a very painful experience.
We have selected these quotes on loss to reflect aspects of loss seen from different perspectives.
We know that people handle loss in a variety of ways, depending upon what has been lost.
Grieving for a loved one who you cared deeply about is on a different level from regretting a monetary loss – or, at least, it should be!
Some people equate the loss of a longtime family pet with human loss, but the emphasis tends towards the missing aspect rather than grief.
The fact is, the more significant the loss, the more intense the grief.
But it is possible to experience a form of grief after moving away from home, graduating from college, changing jobs, selling your family home, or retiring from a career you loved.
Whatever your grief experience, be patient with yourself and just allow the process to naturally unfold.
Checkout these loss quotes to see if you can identify with any of them:
1. Norman Cousins:
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
2. Maya Angelou:
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
3. Marcus Aurelius:
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.
4. Caleb Carr:
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
5. Niccolo Machiavelli:
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
6. Marlo Thomas:
I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.
7. Epicurus:
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
8. James M. Barrie:
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
9. Paul Valery:
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
10. Morgan Freeman:
The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.
11. Robert Southey:
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
12. Anne Roiphe:
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
Did our selection of quotes about loss resonate with you?
Have you ever suffered a tragic loss? How did you cope with it?
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