Loss Quotes

Regret is… an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.

All change is loss, and all loss must be mourned.

If a fighter suffers defeat, especially in a fight he feels he won, it will never leave his mind. He is always going to want to avenge that loss.

This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.

Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.

Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

I think that the loss of confidence in yourself to make good music is what being jaded is.

Do not suffer interim losses, relish and appreciate them

Slenderman can invoke memory loss in all but the most resolute - you could have already had a Slenderman encounter and not remember it.

In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who wouldn't give up on them.

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

A good dog never dies.

In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss.

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

Although our love never dies, the pain of our loss can eventually dissolve.

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.

Never let anyone tell you sports doesn't matter. Never let them tell you it's all about the wins, the losses and the stats. Sports is so much more than that.

There is no growth if there is no change. There is no change if there is no loss. There is no loss if there is no pain.

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

Focus all your meals around high-quality animal protein. You should eat a large variety, and plan your meals around which kind of protein you'll be eating.

Attitude: It is our best friend or our worst enemy.

Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.

The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.

Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching.

The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss.

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. Love and death are not different things, they are the front and back of the same thing.

What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.

I have short-term memory loss, though I'd like to think of it as Persidential eligibility.

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.

To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.

We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.