Francis Quarles Quotes

When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

There's no great loss without some small gain.

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.

For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

One may gain one truth at the expense of another.

If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.

Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.

The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.

It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

Something's lost, but something's gained, in living everyday.

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.