Loss Quotes

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.

No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses. Sun didn't stop using Solaris and DEC didn't stop using VMS.

Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us.

My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.

As entertainers, you're afraid [about] loss of income - but if other people start going to jail for free speech, then we've lost this great thing that America is, and I'd like to keep that.

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses because I know how important every inch is to you aged, decrepit men.

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries.

A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among the teachings of this world of shadows.

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.

The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.

The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.

I have experienced loss in my life, but the thing that brings you back is your faith.

Lately we have had many losses.

On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.

Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.

A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).

Gain or loss, what is worse?

An evil gain equals a loss.

That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation.

A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.

Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it.

There are some losses we never get over.

Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.

I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.

My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.

Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.

And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

Costis bowed stiffly. “I am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking.

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

We only keep what we lose.

No amount of temporal success can compensate for the loss of God's approval.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss.

No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of the most dramatic language loss is in Europe.

As you would expect, the loss of freedom and the lack of privacy are extremely difficult... I want you to know that I am well. I am safe, fit and healthy.

This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.

Imagine a weight-loss program at the end of which, instead of better health, good looks, and hot romantic prospects, you die. Somalia had become just this kind of spa.

The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.

Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.

What was more brutal than loss of hope?