Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.
The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
Woe to the vanquished. Vae victis.
Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
What's a star when his most important fan is missing?
The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings, is a very strong influence.
It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.
Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
As a young kid, you never really understand what it takes to be a footballer: what it's like after you've won or what the changing room is like after a loss, or, as an individual, have you played a good game? Have you played a bad game?
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?
In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature.
Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.
I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.
It would be a shame if the BBC didn't exist.
A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.
If something was to happen to part of my family, I don't know what I'd do.
When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.
Joy, once lost, is pain
