Top 100 The Loss Quotes
#1. Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.
Blaise Pascal
#2. Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#3. I threw everything we had together - the strong roots and stems and leaves and beautiful soft blossoms of sisterhood - into the earth with you. And I was left standing on the edge, so diminished by the loss that I thought I could no longer be there.
Rosamund Lupton
#4. Which was worse? Mourning the loss of something without knowing you never actually had it, or mourning the loss of what you thought you had and never had at all?
Susan Meissner
#5. The humiliation of their arms and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine made a sore pull on the endurance of this sensitive people; and their hearts are still hot, not so much against Germany as against the Empire.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#6. I've now loved two men in my life, and I've lost them both. Losing them hurts, but their lives taught me so much about living that what they taught me somehow overshadows the loss.
R.K. Ryals
#7. Can you be disappointed by the loss of something that had only begun to flicker with the promise of existence?
Abigail Johnson
#8. You shine brighter than the sun"
"But even the sun goes away every night"
"But it is hte sun's absence that makes us feel its power. We know the loss, the beauty and the life that the moon can't replace. That is why we hang on to each day we are given.
Karina Halle
#9. Well then," said I, "if God does not forsake me, of what ill consequence can it be, or what matters it, though the world should all forsake me, seeing on the other hand, if I had all the world, and should lose the favour and blessing of God, there would be no comparison in the loss?
Daniel Defoe
#10. Sometimes
sometimes it just hits me, you know? And, it's not getting any easier." I choke, my eyes flooding all over again.
"I'm not sure that it will. I think you just get used to the feeling, the hollowness, the loss, and somehow learn to live around it
Alyson Noel
#11. In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing life can do to him that he will not be able somehow to bear.
James Thurber
#12. And in the space he left behind, in the loss of him, she felt an actual physical pain in her belly. She'd lost a friend and she didn't have many of those.
Jenny Downham
#13. The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
Abraham Lincoln
#14. That is the end of absence - the loss of lack. The daydreaming silences in our lives are filled; the burning solitudes are extinguished.
Anonymous
#15. Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all. That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward
Lelouch Vi Britannia
#16. Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence,
Max Picard
#17. I've lost someone, too. And there were no rules for how to deal with the death of someone you loved. You had to accept that the loss would always stay with you, like a reminder note pinned to the inside of your jacket. But there were still opportunities for happiness. Even joy.
Lisa Kleypas
#18. Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.
Dave Brubeck
#19. For the loss of those we have loved there is no alleviation but time and carefully and rationally chosen diversions such as will not cause our heart to reproach us.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#20. Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
Eric Hoffer
#21. So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#22. The good that may come out of the loss does not erase its badness or excuse the wrong done. Nothing can do that.
Gerald L. Sittser
#23. Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one.
Jasper Fforde
#24. She considered that there were misfortunes of a much greater magnitude than the loss of a ball experienced every day by some part of mortality, and that the time might come when she would herself look back with wonder and perhaps envy on her having known no greater vexation.
Jane Austen
#25. A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#26. We both knew the place we were at and what that meant. We both felt the regret and the loss. We both knew that without me, none of it would have been possible. Without me, everything would be different. Without me, we wouldn't have been there ... lying in that bed in the first place.
Megan Duke
#27. The death of their two children isn't the erasure of two beings. It is the loss of God and the skies, it is the loss of the past and the future, of all their small-voiced words and their hearts.
A.S. Patric
#28. Freedom is taken for granted by the free and longed for by those who never had it. But for those who have lost it, the loss burns like the hottest flame.
S.W. Lothian
#29. No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Al Gore
#30. ... it is not just that moral conclusions can not be justified in the way that they once were ; but the loss of the possibility of such justification signals a correlative change in the meaning of moral idioms
Alasdair MacIntyre
#31. No wisdom that [my kitten] may gain by experience and reflection hereafter will compensate for the loss of her present hilarity.
William Cowper
#33. When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.
Woody Harrelson
#34. Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul
Catherine Fisher
#35. The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one.
Maria Von Trapp
#36. You need to stop the Lilin, but the only thing you've really accomplished is the loss of your virginity. Still, I suppose congratulations are in order. It is a milestone, after all. Please pass my good tidings to the Prince.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#37. Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.
R.A. Lafferty
#38. If you lose someone, you feel a loss, then after a while you fill in the hole in your life and the loss gradually gets smaller and smaller and eventually goes away. There's a point to the pain. There's a reason and a direction.
Marian Keyes
#39. Isn't the initial loss that does for him, but the stupid plays he makes in an effort to deny that the loss has happened. The great economic psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky summarised the behaviour in their classic analysis of the psychology of risk:
Tim Harford
#40. I look at you and my heart pounds, when for years, I don't think it beat at all. You fill the cracks and crevices, take away the emptiness. And when you're not by my side, the loss is unimaginable.
Kelly Moran
#41. 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
#42. You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one's watching, whether it's an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city.
Peter Diamandis
#43. Drawing up my knees, I fold in on myself. I want to make myself as small as possible. Perhaps this nonsensical pain will be smaller the smaller I am. Placing my head on my knees, I let the irrational tears fall unrestrained. I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous.
E.L. James
#44. Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#45. The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#46. On the positive side, a strong sense of comradely loyalty triggers genuine affection and friendship. On the negative side, it may strengthen contempt for the lives of opponents and, of course, the loss of a comrade may be followed by even greater brutality in battle.
Nel Noddings
#47. For Orwell, the loss of a life was the loss of a mind was the loss of a world, and the world we inhabit is poorer for each loss, for the contributions that mind could have made.
Josh Hanagarne
#48. To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.
David Foster Wallace
#49. I didn't have enough other people in my life to cover the loss of this many people at once. I didn't have spare aunties or cousins or grandparents. I didn't have backup. I didn't have insurance to cover a loss like this.
Liane Moriarty
#51. In mythology, lightning represents either the loss of ignorance or punishment for those who overstep their bounds. I used two bolts since we intend to do both.
Joelle Charbonneau
#52. To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.
Maya Rudolph
#53. Despair is of course the loss of hope.
Anonymous
#54. Don't waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you.
Shannon L. Alder
#56. The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them.
John Calvin
#57. If we who follow Christ, with all the facts before us and knowing what we are about, deliberately choose the kingdom of God as our sphere of interest, I see no reason why anyone should object. If we lose by it, the loss is our own; if we gain, we rob no one by so doing.
A.W. Tozer
#59. (Much of my callousness and invulnerability has come from my refusal to mourn the loss of a soft word and a tender embrace.) Blessed are those who weep and mourn.
Brennan Manning
#60. In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
Virginia Foxx
#61. Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.
Paul Hawken
#62. It goes without saying that the stability of the Middle East is the foundation for peace and prosperity for the world, and of course for Japan, should we leave terrorism or weapons of mass destruction to spread in this region, the loss imparted upon the international community would be immeasurable.
Shinzo Abe
#63. In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.
Judy Blume
#64. Heartbreak is an altogether different thing. Disappointment doesn't grow into heartbreak, nor does failure...It comes form the loss of love or the perceived loss of love...Heartbreak is what happens when love is lost.
Brene Brown
#65. I mean, people need to remember without the grassroots, Ronald Reagan probably doesn't become president of the United States of America and he worked the grassroots on a regular basis during his political career and especially between the years of 1976 and 1980 after the loss in Kansas City.
Michael Reagan
#66. You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
Joseph Stalin
#67. Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#68. For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.
Charlton Heston
#69. After all the shit they'd gone through - the pain, the loss, the heartache, the straight up evil brutality that made them question everything they'd thought to be true and had nearly driven them apart for good - he knew he'd do anything for her. Steal anything, kill anyone, be anyone.
Madeline Sheehan
#70. A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss ... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.
Brad Pitt
#71. One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.
Eric Schmidt
#72. Believe me, the loss of hope is far worse than the loss of limbs.
Nick Vujicic
#73. When men lie to women, presenting a false self, the terrible price they pay to maintain "power over" us is the loss of their capacity to give and receive love.
Bell Hooks
#74. The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
Peter Stuyvesant
#75. For all the loss and tragedy I have known, my life has taught me that the human spirit like the lifted hands of the blind, will rise above chaos and destruction, as wings in flight
Vaddey Ratner
#76. Well, he us a nab, he is mortal, death comes to us all, etcetera, and consequently he would have died anyways, sooner or later. Or to look at it from the social point of view - he's just one man among many, the loss would be well within reason and convenience.
Tom Stoppard
#77. Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated.
Guy Davenport
#78. The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.
Chris Hedges
#79. Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!
John Grier Hibben
#80. It seems if a man looks away for an instant, his freedoms can be stolen from him and he doesn't even recognize the loss until it's too late.
Karen Truesdell Riehl
#81. The fear of loss . . . it can destroy you as much as the loss itself.
Sarah J. Maas
#82. Collecting and hoarding seem to be about the loss of others, while philanthropy and de-accessioning are more about the impending loss of self. (Whoever dies with the most toys actually loses.)
Douglas Coupland
#83. 'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.
Lynda Barry
#84. Often, women who lose babies are blamed for the loss of those children and are ostracised.
Jane Chen
#85. When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#86. She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might have been.
Kimberley Freeman
#87. What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all but the loss of it.
Gabor Mate
#88. If one could be enraged by the loss of a favorite sports team, shouldn't his anger rise at the entrenchment of a scheme whereby no innocent person was safe, where self-determination was a crime punished by the vagaries of an opaque & impervious justice system?
Ausma Zehanat Khan
#89. Let us weigh up the gain and the loss involved in calling heads that God exists. Let us assess the two cases: if you win you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate then; wager that he does exist.
Blaise Pascal
#90. Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of World Government. It is the primrose path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty. Free trade is a bright shining lie.
Pat Buchanan
#91. When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon
#92. It is the image in the mind that links us to our lost treasures; but it is the loss that shapes the image, gathers the flowers, weaves the garland.
Colette
#93. Politics thrives on simple, clean messages, something that played to Obama's advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of America's AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obama's watch, and there's no one left to blame.
John Sununu
#94. The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
Albert Camus
#96. Things that cannot long be kept secret: death in the family, the loss of a ring, corruption of the spirit, boredom, illicit love. Sickness. Addiction. Pregnancy. Within the pure white wimple of her beekeeping suit, wrapped in buzzing,
Catherynne M Valente
#97. I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even the enemy
Jessica Dovey
#98. There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
James Callaghan
#100. 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.
Victoria Alexander
