Loss Quotes
Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!
Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.
And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.
Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.
Loss is like a closed road that forces us to turn around and find another way to our destination. Who knows what we will discover and see along the way.
Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized.
The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters.
The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia... I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I must say, I wished he had been.
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution. . .than to anything else.
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.
All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back.
The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.
No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.
Nowadays, you suffer the same risks - ostracism, career loss, possible assault - for being perceived as racist that you would have encountered a century ago for daring to question racist ideology.
Us going out there and performing our best. That's how I define success. I'm not going to define it for us by the wins and the losses as much as by the effort and how we handle ourselves.
Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.
After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.
