Hard Loss Quotes

#1. I knew how hard loss was. It never went away, but stayed with you like a faint shadow that was thicker some days than others.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#2. It's a hard loss when you lose by one point.

Mariel Zagunis

#3. Birth, not death, is the hard loss.

Louise Gluck

#4. A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#5. A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?

Ron Suskind

#6. I always thought of grief as a blow that took everything out of you. And it is like that. But it stays, past that first hard hit. It stays and blows its breath into you.
It's always there, reminding you of what you've lost. What's gone.

Elizabeth Scott

#7. What you're seeing is a loss of confidence in institutions and their legitimacy because they are not seen as delivering. It's hardly a surprise that it's producing a degree of paralysis. Politics becomes very reactive and it's hard to deal with the bigger issues.

Jonathan Wood

#8. The pain of your loss will return. Less, but still considerable. I know you've worked hard to release it, but it can still take hold of you. I will help you sing away the fury, but I will not bear it for you.

Alex Bledsoe

#9. Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.

Etty Hillesum

#10. The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt ...

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#11. The usual justification for eating extra meals is that it keeps the metabolism 'revved up' so that weight loss is easier. There is, however, very little hard evidence that supports this idea, and a fair amount that disputes it.

Andrew Weil

#12. If she's gonna love again, it won't be an eternity but a hard, fast conflagration that leaves everyone else in the embers.

Lindsay Detwiler

#13. Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.

Venus Williams

#14. No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Al Gore

#15. You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.
Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.

Rainbow Rowell

#16. Mothering, she learned the hard way, was about loss as well as love.

Attica Locke

#17. When I started working out, it wasn't about weight loss; I was going through a really hard time and needed an emotional release. Once you start getting in the tabloids claiming you have fake body parts, then it's like, 'Okay, I made it. Now I'm really working out.'

Khloe Kardashian

#18. I love hard and still haven't a clue what it feels like ...

Alexandra Elle

#19. It's always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.

Kevin Brooks

#20. Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out.

Hailey Edwards

#21. Great teams work harder after a tough loss.

Ron Brown

#22. Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

Les Brown

#23. Here's a word. Bereavement. Or, Bereaved. Bereft. It's from the Old English bereafian, meaning 'to deprive of, take away, seize, rob'. Robbed. Seized. It happens to everyone. But you feel it alone. Shocking loss isn't to be shared, no matter how hard you try.

Helen Macdonald

#24. Work hard, play hard, stay hard. I coined it first back 1993.

Scott Deuty

#25. Listen, Harper. I realize how hard this is for you.
A flash of anger heats up in my chest. She doesn't understand. She can't. If she did, she'd leave me alone instead of trying to force me to talk about this.

Hannah Harrington

#26. Eyes glazed over as the great rice-wine parties in the highlands were recalled, parties that are no longer held since the arrival of the mission. Bario has become a good, clean, upstanding, sober, hard-working Christian community. What a loss for these fun-loving and generous people.

Eric Hansen

#27. I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

Muhammad Ali

#28. A feeling that all his hard decisions, all the pain and loss and spilled blood, had not been for nothing, after all. There was a reason. There was a purpose. There was life and love.

Stephen King

#29. Just as children have growing pains as their bodies work to attain maturity, as people's souls deepen and gain resonance it's the same thing. To be challenged, to stretch, to get stronger comes only with the hard stuff - loss, heartache, disappointment.

J.R. Ward

#30. In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed. They come knit together. The lines of pain run through the joy and remind us to go all in, because life is short. The joy edges the pain and gives us a reason to rise.

Anna White

#31. PIerre tried to work up a stormy heart of romantic loss about breaking up with Rebecca. It gave him license to drink and brood with hard eyes, which he found interesting.

Tom Drury

#32. If that's the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You've numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry.

Brent Jones

#33. Fat cells have memories. They want to go back to their old size. But new muscles have memories too and, once you have created muscles, they work hard to hold your new shape.
You are always on a diet. The only question is, a diet for what? Health or obesity? Longevity or illness?

Celso Cukierkorn

#34. If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.

Andrew Vachss

#35. Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work
hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss
loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.

Jean Vanier

#36. Be honest! You are not going to want to admit energy loss. Someone is making it hard for you to look.

Frederick Lenz

#37. To live an honest life you have to strive hard, get involved, fight, make mistakes, begin something and give it up, begin again, struggle endlessly, and suffer loss. As for tranquility - it's spiritual baseness.

Leo Tolstoy

#38. He has yet to confront society with this ego-shattering, life-redeeming elixir, and take the return blow of reasonable queries, hard resentment, and good people at a loss to comprehend.

Joseph Campbell

#39. Wandering is better than place sometimes, than home, than destination. Sometimes she can eke out the idea that wandering is possibility, chance, serendipity
he might be there, that place she didn't think to look, hadn't worked hard enough to find ...

Michelle Latiolais

#40. Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a family break up. It is hard to protect against those.

Elizabeth Warren

#41. At times like this There's not a lot that words can do To help ease your pain and sense of loss And though it may be hard to believe right now Know that the pain will ease with time And you will look back at the memories of your dear one And smile and remember a life well lived and loved.

Margaret Jones

#42. Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.

Kathy Baker

#43. The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.

Ahmed Chalabi

#44. If it is hard to imagine that 20% of losses on the stock market, you should never participate

John C. Bogle

#45. Despise your heart. I wanted to. I didn't want to grieve anymore, to feel loss or guilt, or worry. I wanted to be hard, calculating. I wanted to be fearless.

Leigh Bardugo

#46. And it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you are bold with unknowing, you are ready to explore.

Terra Elan McVoy

#47. We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know
not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?

Elisabeth Elliot

#48. The world is full of holes and uneven seams, wrinkled places that you can't make smooth, no matter how hard you try.

Paula Stokes

#49. I don't know that you ever get over this kind of loss. The fact that Chris is gone is a sharp hurt I feel every single day. It's really hard. Some days are better than others, but it's going to be hard every day for the rest of my life.

Jon Krakauer

#50. When you have endure the worse situations, you build the courage and confidence to cope with any other situations.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#51. It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.

Joe Abercrombie

#52. Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.

Christina Greer

#53. It is hard to write it in words that I can read, that re-establishes the fact that has been haunting me for the past one year.

Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary

#54. Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.

Lisa Scottoline

#55. It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.

Tony Parker

#56. For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#57. So the princess discovered that when one loves a forbidden thing, one loses what ones loves most. This truth is a hard won battle for each who finds it and is always gained by loss.

David R. Mains

#58. 'Everything is temporary. Nothing lasts. We're born. We die. Life's all about loss and change. Things happen, we learn to adapt or we don't, but we move on in some way or another. Sometimes that's hard and takes longer than we'd like.'

Barbara Elsborg

#59. Don't fight in front of the client, boys." Catarina implored in her sweet voice," or I will knock your heads together so hard, your skulls will crack like eggs

Cassandra Clare

#60. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks.

Lisa Unger

#61. I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

Chet Faker

#62. In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead.

Toni Morrison

#63. Yes, it's worth it. The pain of sorrow is terrible and hard to bear, but the joy of love makes it worthwhile. p123

Kate Sherwood

#64. After a loss like this we just have to go back and work harder. We got outplayed and that's all there is to it. You have to let it go, move on and just work harder.

Peyton Manning

#65. He went through the old motions of his life, taking care of what needed caring for, keeping mostly quiet about what was on his mind. But his hard waiting changed him; you could see it in his face.

Wendell Berry

#66. The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seemed filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster

Elizabeth Bishop

#67. An Australian swimmer who failed to win a gold medal is blaming her loss on social media. In her defense, it is really hard to tweet when you're swimming.

Conan O'Brien

#68. I miss your face. That big bright smile. You always had it, in any weather. It's hard for me to find one these days. These cold November days. Except when I think of you.

Kellie Elmore

#69. Saying goodbye to someone you love isn't really the hard part. It's living every day, not being able to say anything to them at all.

Laurel Ulen Curtis