Top 100 Quotes About Loss
#1. But the point is, the talking heads are wrong. The loss won't bring back a simpler time. Only a search for something new to fill the void.
Wayne Gladstone
#2. In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.
Steve Erickson
#3. Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#4. The economic insecurity of the past ten to 15 years, the 2008 Wall Street crash, NAFTA, and the loss of millions of good jobs - these directly grow out of Democratic Party neo-liberal policies.
Jill Stein
#5. Burnout can be defined as a loss of enthusiasm, energy, idealism, perspective, and purpose; it has been described as trying to run a marathon at full speed. It's often the mothers who care the most who are the most prone to burnout.
Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett
#6. How many of us share the stories of our lives with our own children? What a loss to the children if we don't.
James Patterson
#7. Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices.
John Gray
#9. Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak diuretic that causes calcium loss via the kidneys.
Neal Barnard
#10. For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#11. The future is flying home. That's the immediate future. But long-distance future, I plan on being back. I'm not going to end my time here with that loss.
Pete Sampras
#12. He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze, stain, lethargy, vocal slip, loss of balance or lapse of memory that would signal the inevitable beginning of the inevitable end.
Joseph Heller
#13. Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families.
Stephanie Coontz
#14. The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget safety but also threaten it. And there is a lot for me about loss, too.
Edan Lepucki
#15. In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we are able to offer only pity, for whom we are powerless to offer aid, who are beyond mercy.
Dean Koontz
#16. Loss is never forgotten. But the weight of it dissipates with time.
Bella Forrest
#17. In all of us, there is a child that exists while we have our parents. With my mother gone, I feel a sadness for the loss of the child within myself.
J.L. Witterick
#18. The women's song was always the same, as monotonous as the beating of the waves against the beach: loss, loss. The conch offered them no enchantment. When they put their ear to it, all they heard was the echo of their mourning.
Carsten Jensen
#20. As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.
Clifford Geertz
#21. We all wish to protect our loved ones from pain. But part of loving is sharing....Sharing hopes and fears, pain and loss, bodies and minds. Why else love?
Elizabeth Vaughan
#22. The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.
Alexander Haig
#23. As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.
Ben Fountain
#24. Rather than focus on the negative aspects of change, which is loss, I focus on the adventure of it and say "What's next?"
Dennis Wholey
#25. Bear in mind you have a life to live. There is an incredible loss. There is a profound grief. And there is, in the end, after a long time and more work than you ever thought possible, a time when it gets easier.
Marya Hornbacher
#26. DSM definitions do not include personal and contextual factors such as whether the depressive symptoms are an understandable response to loss, a terrible life situation, psychological conflict or personality factors.
Allen Frances
#27. marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief.
Khaled Hosseini
#28. A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
Paul Valery
#29. The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable.
Lord Chesterfield
#30. Music, the universal language of love and hope and loss and everything else.
Sarah Ockler
#31. Nazi Germany was so destructive to Judaism not only for the loss of life, but because many who survived began to see the practice of Judaism as somewhat of a health hazard.
Jon Stewart
#32. Still, the loss of something is significant, and I think that loss is the necessary source of a new manifestation.
Yukio Mishima
#33. It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals..
Margaret Starbird
#35. Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
Douglas Haig
#36. The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Seneca.
#37. Each instant brought them, more momentous than the explosion of Krakatoa. It was only that no one noticed. We are to accustomed to the absurdity of existence. The loss of a universe is not worth taking seriously.
Yukio Mishima
#39. The hole where my heart had finally grown back after the loss of my parents was returning because of the very person who had filled the void
Cassandra Giovanni
#40. Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.
Friedrich Schiller
#41. Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope.
Sallie Tisdale
#42. The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.
Kate Mosse
#43. In the business world, unwise men take more that they give. They do not realize that they are breaking the Universal Law which will eventually break them to an equal extent. It may not be balanced in the form of dollars and cents but in the loss of good-will upon which their future business depends.
Walter Russell
#44. Their hands slapped library door handles together, their chests broke track tapes together, their tennis shoes beat parallel pony tracks over lawns, trimmed bushes, squirreled trees, no one losing, both winning, thus saving their friendship for other times of loss.
Ray Bradbury
#45. For the loss of the team, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer snap poll found that 40 percent of readers blamed Schultz the most, followed by 15 percent for Nickels and 11 percent for Bennett.
David Holt
#46. That sense of loss is exactly what we must anticipate, prepare for, and cherish to the last of our days; for it is only our heartbreak that finally refutes all that is ephemeral in love. The
Amor Towles
#47. A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
Ben Jonson
#48. 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.
Veronica Webb
#49. Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
Ramana Maharshi
#50. With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.
Ron Wyden
#51. To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-.
Emily Dickinson
#52. I didn't know what to do, there was a feeling of time running out and a loss of momentum, of opportunities wasted.
Jon McGregor
#53. ...Rejoice for a comrade deceased,
Our loss is his infinite gain,
A soul out of prison released,
And free from its bodily chain."
~Smokey Lonesome
Fannie Flagg
#54. His expression seems a sort of surrender: the loss of a thing that he has already lost before.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#55. Evidently there is no need for delay, no need for further study, if the government takes a loss and Wall Street makes a profit, but it is absolutely necessary to delay if homeowners might have a chance to cut their mortgages and stay in their homes. This is wrong, and it is time to fight back!
Elizabeth Warren
#57. When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you ... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.
Suze Orman
#58. We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#59. When individual enterprise is free and unhampered, profit-and-loss calculations set precise limits to a businessman's temptations to expand his services ... a government valuable they may be, have no market price and, therefore, cannot be subjected to profit-and-loss accounting.
Hans F. Sennholz
#60. And sitting around the table on the fine-quality chairs and sofas were Magnus Bane, Jem Carstairs, Catarina Loss, and Clary,
Cassandra Clare
#61. If you decide to cut something out this year, try replacing it with something else to balance out the loss. If you stop drinking soda, for example, replace it with becoming more sedentary. You deserve it. You loved soda.
Colin Nissan
#62. The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.
Anne Perry
#63. Sometimes you have to let go of a career you love, a beloved home, or a loved one. Take time to grieve a loss of this nature. If you find yourself disoriented, consider surrounding yourself with people who see your strengths, goodness, gifts, and talents. They will help you find your way.
Laura Staley
#64. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
#65. I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss
Maya Angelou
#66. And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
Lael Brainard
#68. The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
Clay Shirky
#69. I envy no man's nightingale or spring;
Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
Who plainly say, My God, My King.
George Herbert
#70. I like the fact that everyone is nostalgic for vinyl, and I'm being nostalgic for CDs, which are like the new outdated things that no one is going to mourn the loss of - everyone's already written them off.
Alexis Taylor
#72. In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
Joni Mitchell
#73. I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
Washington Irving
#74. He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated.
Madonna Ciccone
#75. I looked over the despondency of the home crowd. Fools! Fools! I thought. Love it! Love the loss as well as the gain. Go home and dig it. Nobody was killed. We saw victory and defeat, and they were both wonderful.
Barry Hannah
#76. The love between us is fire and ice. It's loss, and it's redemption. It's pain, and it's comfort. It is everything.
Callie Hart
#77. The tremendous historical need of our unsatisfied modern culture, the assembling around one of countless other cultures, the consuming desire for knowledge
what does all this point to, if not to the loss of myth, the loss of the mythical home, the mythical maternal womb?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#78. Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.
Felipe Perez Roque
#79. If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses.
Ed Seykota
#80. In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.
Ursula Hegi
#81. The loss is transformative, in good ways and bad, a tangle of change that cannot be threaded into the usual narrative spools ... It's not an emergence from the cocoon, but a tree growing around an obstruction.
Meghan O'Rourke
#82. Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.
Meghan O'Rourke
#83. It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer
Mikhail Tal
#85. You can't show somebody what it's like to experience loss, but you can soundtrack it and help them experience their own loss. I am so lucky to have this venue to be able to say and talk about all the stuff I've been through.
Zachary Cole Smith
#86. No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss; nothing, however, is lost with less discomfort than that which, when lost, cannot be missed.
Seneca.
#87. The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?
Lisa Ann Sandell
#88. The day you were born
Heaven wept at its great loss,
Earth joyed at its gain.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#89. If the satisfaction to be derived from each successive increase in wealth is smaller than the satisfaction derived from the previous increase in wealth, then the disutility caused by a loss will always exceed the positive utility provided by a gain of equal size.
Peter L. Bernstein
#90. If love was a lucky penny, shiny and unspoiled, secreted in a most unlikely place, then it's tarnished flipside was loss.
Ellery A. Kane
#91. Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved.
Brene Brown
#92. But brokenhearted was brokenhearted. Never embraced. Never treasured. Never easy. Heath figured every human being had a certain amount of God-ordained grace to endure their own unique brand of loss and pain.
Rachel Hauck
#93. If we keep our heads down, either out of defeat or loss or shame or tiredness ... whatever the reason, we are going to miss the beautiful sun (and Son) that is right there in front of us, shining its warmth on our faces and our souls!
Mary Beth Chapman
#94. When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#95. Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
Venus Williams
#96. The process of secularisation arises not from the loss of faith but from the loss of social interest in the world of faith. It begins the moment men feel that religion is irrelevant to the common way of life and that society as such has nothing to do with the truths of faith.
Christopher Henry Dawson
#97. Loss taught me the priceless value of friends. I would have lost it but for my friends.
Nana Awere Damoah
#98. I have a deposition Monday, I have a career - !" "You haven't anymore. What you have is here, in Rhadaz. I won't apologize," Merrida said flatly. "If your loss is great, it would be an impertinence.
Ru Emerson
#99. I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again ...
John Geddes
#100. I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the movie together, and sometimes you give a whole performance that's just been cut up, and maybe it's better for it, absolutely, but you still have to deal with the loss of that.
Tavis Smiley
