Loss Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.

Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.

Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.

And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.

Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen emey, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength- Drizzt Do'Urden

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

Rather than strive to 'lose weight,' most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle.

If at first you don't succeed, try management. Indecision is the key to flexibility. If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

A rolling loan gathers no loss.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.