They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.
And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.
The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.
You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.
Our atheist thoughts go out to his family following their loss.
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.
I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!
It is how we respond to loss that matters. That response will largely determine the quality, the direction, and the impact of our lives.
There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
