Top 32 Quotes About Losing Something You Never Had
#1. But how can one regret what, to the mind, has never existed? Even loss is an inaccurate description, for what loss is without the awareness of losing?
Nicole Krauss
#2. He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He'd discovered that he had never been brave before - just indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.
Patricia Briggs
#3. It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#4. He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had
Tad Williams
#5. You're never as smart as you think you are when you are winning and never as dumb as you feel when you are losing.
Michael Hyatt
#6. Losing yourself in words is like finding yourself stuck in the
pages. But never forget for every blank page you have the
opportunity to release your own imagination.
Katrina Thompson
#7. Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.
Portia De Rossi
#8. Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
Robert Genn
#10. Never mix business with religion, or you might end up losing your testimony when the business agreement is no longer something you or Christ would put up with.
Shannon L. Alder
#11. I could never love her, the fear of losing would be too strong.
Atticus
#12. Often, you know.' 'I don't know,' said the Caterpillar. Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper. 'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar. 'Well, I should like
Lewis Carroll
#13. We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.
Tony Curtis
#14. Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.
Sun Tzu
#15. It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.
Jodi Picoult
#16. To have may be taken from us, to have had, never. A man is thankless in the highest degree if, after losing something, he feels no obligation for having received it.
Seneca.
#17. Maybe love is a risk, but it's a risk I'm willing to take and as you said, it's not a choice. I never thought I would, never thought I could love someone like that but I fell in love with you. I fought it. It's the first battle I didn't mind losing.
Cora Reilly
#18. That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
Karl Urban
#19. The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley
#20. Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#21. Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
Arthur Ashe
#22. Jenna nodded, wiping tears away with the back of her hand. She leaned toward David and they hugged again. "I was never okay with losing you," she said quietly. "You know that, right?
Melissa J. Morgan
#23. Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. But have fun. Most people never win because they're more afraid of losing.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#24. The difference between champions and everyone else is that champions are never afraid of losing, while everyone else is afraid of winning.
Jeffrey Fry
#25. Finding the funny is the key to never losing your edge
Marie Forleo
#26. I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there
Jodi Picoult
#27. I'm afraid of losing you, I never expected I could be so stupidly afraid of losing you.
Sara Baume
#28. The only way to be sure of never losing the ones you love. The Dahmer Method. Extreme, but effective.
Glen Duncan
#29. Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive.
Haruki Murakami
#30. I understand more than I want to. People act like love is a gift, but it's not. It's theft. It's a goddamn tragedy. Love is losing a vital organ to a man who will never give his in return.
Skye Warren
#32. Mariella felt as if there were signs all around her that losing what you loved was worse than never having it to begin with.
Erika Robuck