Loss Quotes

This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.

The difference in the way Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump talk about the middle class is stark. For Clinton, it's a story of hope. For Trump, it is a story of loss.

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.

Nobody wants to lose. But I don't care what my win-loss record is. At the end of the day, I don't look at it.

There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

In those places of doubt and even darkness I've realized that who I am has nothing to do with wins or losses, applause, or negative criticism. It has to do with whose I am.

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

If you're going to solve a weight-loss problem - or smoking problem for that matter - you must address both the psychological and physiological.

It's a great loss.[Carrie Fisher] was a comic genius, as far as I'm concerned.

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal.

God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.

I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.

Seems to me that there is no better way to experience the depth of loss than after the fact. No more powerful instrument of imbuing value in an object than parting with it.

When my Azzedine jacket from 1987 died, I wrapped it up in a box, attached a note saying where it came from and took it to the Salvation Army. It was a big loss.

Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.

The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.

There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.

People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.

It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art.

The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain.

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.

I mourn the loss of the gigantic screen, but I guess you can't have everything.

I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.

Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I can give the loser leave to chide.

Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.

The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone.

In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence—wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.