Loss Quotes

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.

An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.

Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil? He who loves most, spends most, He who hoards much loses much

With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.

The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.

But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!

Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple; it is a privilege to see so much confusion.

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur

Kenneth Cooper's research shows that low to moderate intensity exercise is just as beneficial as high-intensity exercise - but without the rigorous wear and tear on the system.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.

To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-.

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

Losers must have leave to speak.

But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.

Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.

He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.

Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun.

One meal a day is enough for a lion and would be for all of us if all we did all day was swat flies.

I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

I believe we recover from loss by facing the loss, grieving, going deep inside ourselves (hopefully with a guide) and re-emerging to live and love again.

(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open.

The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.

I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.

God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.