Loss Quotes

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

There's no great loss without some small gain.

Everyone surrounding you has gone through similar things. The search for love or the desire to have a family or the loss of a child.

Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Just imagine that you are the person you want to be.

Every loss is temporary. Every victory is eternal.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

The avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome.

If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too.

Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic.

Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

One of the biggest insurance mistakes boat owners make is endorsing their boats onto their homeowners policies, which may not cover their losses from a major storm.

Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.

My wife is a light eater. As soon as it's light, she starts to eat.

It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.

Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.

That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.

Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.

If you can, always be appreciative of the ebb and flow of the losses and the wins.

The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.

After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Maybe relationships could have fractals, too. And maybe the sense of loss was when you're becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other.

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.

Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

You never know what you have till you've lost it.