Washington Irving Quotes About Loss

Quotes about: Loss

• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Friendship, Inspiring, Goodbye

  Washington Irving, William Irving (1824). “Salmagundi”, p.151

• Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.

  Washington Irving

  Loneliness, Loss, Bird

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works”, p.251

• I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

  Washington Irving

  Believe, Writing, Loss

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