Loss Quotes

Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that's very powerful stuff.

Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.

The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.

The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.

Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.

There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.

There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing. I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.

Here's the secret to weight loss: It's all about crowding out, not cutting out.

Fine. Everybody wears seatbelts. No radio. No distractions.” Ben shot Hi a stern look. “No running commentary.” “Your loss,” Hi said. “To the pimp ride!

The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever of life that remains after the losses.

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

I want to bring things up to room temperature, especially poultry, before I cook it because I want it to cook faster so that there's less moisture loss.

So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded.

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root; Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round a weedy tomb.

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius.

Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.

So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.

Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it.

I always carry yeast flakes and bran with me when I travel.

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.

I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.

After a devastating loss, your whole perspective shifts, and you're kind of in a blank space. You feel like on one side nothing matters, and on the other side a freedom because nothing matters.

My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.

So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.

... I feel far more hunger pangs when I am denied mental nourishment than I do at the loss of meals.

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.

I have more energy to run after our four children. Weight loss and great skin were a bonus!

Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln.

No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal.

...Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, and weight-loss tips.