Jacqueline Carey Quotes

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.

We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.

May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

Health is not valued till sickness comes

Every time something is taken away, you're forced to take a step back and realize how much that thing means to you. You don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

It is better to lose than never to have had.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?'

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

You appreciate things after you lose them.

Knowledge is never too dear.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much suffering there was and at how certain bad situations were made worse by our decisions.

No victory is free from sorrow.

You know what I learned? Everything has a price.

'The Duffler' is a very familiar story, a story about someone having something and not appreciating it until it's gone, when it's too late.

For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.