Loss Quotes

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.

The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.

A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse.

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

In all our losses, all our gains, In all our pleasures, all our pains, The life of life is: Love remains. In every change from good to ill,- If love continues still, Let happen then what will.

You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

We've all lost something along the way.

Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb.

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.

Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them.

Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.

To me, there was no better drummer than Jeff Porcaro. His musicianship and kindness to me will never be forgotten. Our loss is heaven's gain

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much.

I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

We have to live with it, sometimes these coincidences do happen. They are obviously huge losses but we will just have to get on as we are.