Affliction Quote by Emily Dickinson

The moment when you are sure you cant lose what you own, is exactly the moment when you start losing it.

— Anonymous

We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us…

— Lloyd Jones

So how can you lose what you've never owned?

— Lew Brown

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

— Meghan O'Rourke

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

— Napoleon Hill

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

— Richard Paul Evans

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

— Jodi Picoult

But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for…

— Harpo Marx

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which…

— Pericles

...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal…

— Rohinton Mistry

Owning is owing, having is hoarding.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have,…

— Tori Amos