Loss Quotes

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

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

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.

A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

To avoid whipsaw losses, stop trading.

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.

Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.

In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

The losses are good... if you learn something.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

Empty your mind of all thoughts.

I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.

I like Iron Maiden and a few other bands, but by and large I don't like metal music. Most of it simply put reeks. This meant that it was no great loss for me to drop the metal music altogether.

Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mothers loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.

Loss provides an opportunity to take inventory of our lives, to reconsider priorities, and to determine new directions.

Are you having problems hearing? If so, those around you already know it. Hearing loss is no laughing matter, so don't be a punchline.

Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

If the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.

Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.

Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.

There is no such thing as a paper loss. A paper loss is a very real loss.

If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.

Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return.

Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner.

And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.

One pitch can be the difference between a win and a loss, an error could be the difference.

If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.