Loss Quotes

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.

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.

Persecutors fear loss of control. Rescuers fear loss of purpose. Rescuers need Victims-someone to protect or fix-to bolster their self-esteem.

As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.

I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.

Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.

Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.

Rich people see opportunities. Poor people see obstacles. Rich people see potential growth. Poor people see potential loss. Rich people focus on rewards. Poor focus on the risks.

Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light.

My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people.

I challenge the challenges. I like to face the problems. I don't run away from them. Whatever loss I have to face it, I face it.

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

What I've learned from those losses... Priceless.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

I'm normally not at a loss of words but I am a little taken aback by what you're wearing; it's a little different.

Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything.

Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.

REAL Peace is always unshakable... 'Bliss is unchanged by gain or loss'

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

See with your ears and hear with your eyes.

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!

If you're not doing what is best for your body, you are the one who lose.

Believe while others are doubting.

All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.

The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.