Loss Quotes

Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.

Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses.

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.

Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.

William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.