“To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.” PersonsHateLossLove Is Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Even a 30-year-old man whose wife dies is eleven times more likely to commit suicide than a 30-year-old man whose wife is living. At age 30, when men can bury themselves in their jobs and are physically and financially attractive to women, the loss of the one woman a man loves is so devastating it is often not softened even by the opportunities for many women... in brief, it is the loss of love that devastates men.” MenYearsAgeJobsDiesOpportunityLossLove IsWifeSuicideCommitAttractiveOld ManElevenOne WomanLove LossAge 30 Author:Warren Farrell
“Consider, for example, lust versus love. When we lust after someone or something, we think in terms of what they (or it) can do for us. When we love, however, our thoughts are immersed in what we can give to someone else. Giving makes us feel good, so we do it happily. But when we lust, we only want to take. When someone we love is in pain, we feel pain. When someone whom we lust is in pain, we only think in terms of what that loss or inconvenience means to us.” ThinkingWantGivingFeelsMeanPainTermCan DoLossLove IsExampleLustFeel GoodOur ThoughtsVersusInconvenience Author:David J. Lieberman
“Eventually we will learn that the loss of indivisible love is another of our necessary losses, that loving extends beyond the mother-child pair, that most of the love we receive in this world is love we will have to share--and that sharing begins at home, with our sibling rivals.” WorldChildrenHomeMotherLossLove IsShareThis WorldPairsRivalsSiblingRivalryIndivisibleSibling RivalryMother Child Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-children's will be. But we learn to live with that love.” WayChildrenParentLosesHurtLossLove IsLaughingMinesEdgesFadesTimbreEverything Is Illuminated Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.” PeopleThinkingWayWantMayI CanFactsPainDiesLossLove IsLetting GoHardestHardest ThingWanting To Die Author:Isabel Allende
“The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.” IfsGivingChristLossLove IsSonCostHighestGloryDisplayServing GodValentineValentine's DayDeservingGod ImageActs Of LoveGood FridayBest GiftUndeserving Author:John Piper