Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.
William Shakespeare
That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.
Guy Finley
I have nothing to lose. My personal casualty means nothing.
Christopher Jordan Dorner
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
German Motto
No man can lose what he never had.
Izaak Walton
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
Syrus
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
Ovid
What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.
William Shakespeare
Only those who avoid love can avoid grief. The point is to learn from grief and remain vulnerable to love.
John Brantner