Loss Quotes

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.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.

... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

Choice, not chance, determines destiny.

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.

Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.

All our losses and sufferings will be made up to us in the resurrection.

I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until it became a part of who I am.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.

Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.

Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.

Pause and remember - You will have a lot more time and energy to spend on yourself when you stop worrying and wasting time on how others need to change.

Pause and remember - At any moment you have the power to say 'this is enough' and radically change the course of your destiny. Have the faith and courage to follow your hearts calling.

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Love child!" What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.

Little changes over time are the secret to long term weight loss success!

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality.

The reality of heaven doesn't take away the pain of or suffering or our losses, but it assures us that our pain is temporary.

Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.

One of the signs of relying on deeds is loss of hope when a misstep occurs.

No man can lose what he never had.

We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.

It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Blazing? Droplets of thoughts can soothe it all. Don't feel depleted. Bask in the residue. That remains!