When You Lose Something Quotes

#1. I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.

Amy Tan

#2. When you lose something and God allows that to happen, it simply means He wants to give you something much better.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. 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

#4. And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.
-Rose

Amy Tan

#5. I think it's like when you lose something so close to you, it's like losing yourself. That's why at the end, it's hard for her to write even. She can hardly remember how. Because she barely knows what she is anymore.

Ava Dellaira

#6. There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.

J. Sterling

#7. But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself.

Harpo Marx

#8. Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself.

Anonymous

#9. 'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

Salli Richardson

#10. Why is it that when you lose something, it is always in the last place that you look for it? Because of course, once you remember, you always stop looking.

Edwidge Danticat

#11. How long before the shouting starts? How long before the tears and the accusations and the pain? That specific stone n the stomach pain when you lose something you haven't got round to valuing? Why is the measure of love loss?

Jeanette Winterson

#12. Just when you start to lose yourself in the story," she said, "he throws in something really juvenile.

Benjamin Anastas

#13. My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.

Peter M. Brant

#14. Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.

Caroline Dries

#15. To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.

Joseph Priestley

#16. What is fear but the worry of physical harm coming to the body? The notion that you will lose something-a person, a thing, your memories, yourself. Does he experience that? Do any of them experience that when they can just be put back together again?

Jadah McCoy

#17. When you post something, when you text something, you lose ownership of it when you hit enter or send. Who you send it to, where you post it, they take ownership of that information whether you like it or not.

Mark Cuban

#18. Sometimes when you want something for so long, you lose interest when you finally get it. "I

Natavia Stewart

#19. Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.

Richard O'Brien

#20. But you lose the opportunity to share the good things when you do something bad.

Courtney Maum

#21. You are everything good in my life. Even when I thought all I had was the darkness, you were there. And you gave me something to live for. I couldn't let you go. No matter how hard I tried. I know now that's because to lose you would be losing the very best part of myself.

A Meredith Walters

#22. When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.

Jodi Picoult

#23. When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.

Alexandra Bracken

#24. Watch people when they win, and you will learn something. But watch them when they lose, and you will learn even more.

Pang-Mei Natasha Chang

#25. When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember.

Nora Roberts

#26. What's wrong? Are you trying to make me lose it? Why didn't you say something when I came in?"
"I didn't know I was supposed to. You called out for your mom. I didn't know I was required to announce my presence like it was roll call.

Eileen Cook

#27. But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

Norton Juster

#28. When you die you lose nothing, you are deprived of nothing. It becomes like before you were born and had nothing. You are deprived of something you wanted and you can only feel and want things if your senses work perfectly. The dead can't feel anything

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#29. All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.

Mark Viduka

#30. When you're a teenager,everybody is waiting for you to be something or somebody else-your friends,your parents,your teachers.Sometimes you lose track.

John David Anderson

#31. Whatever game you're playing, you're going to lose," he whispers. "And I'll be right there to rub your nose in it when it happens."
"Great. Well, at least I have something to look forward to." I cross my arms. "Now why don't you go parade your lack of dignity somewhere else?

Rachel Morgan

#32. Hey, Hachi
People always say that you only discover how precious something is after you lose it
but I think, you only really recognize it ... when you see it a second time face to face.
-Nana Osaki

Ai Yazawa

#33. I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.

Michael Jackson

#34. The only time you lose at something is when you don't learn from that experience.

Chuck Norris

#35. What better time to try something new than when you have nothing to lose.

Jules Barnard

#36. When you find something precious, you have to hold on to it with all your might and never let it go, whatever else you may lose. After all, there are lots of people who die without ever finding something that's really precious to them.

Novala Takemoto

#37. All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.

Paulo Coelho

#38. This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in.

Rajneesh

#39. Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

Benny Goodman

#40. The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

Robyn Davidson

#41. The terrifying experience and obsession of death, when preserved in consciousness, becomes ruinous. If you talk about death, you save part of yourself. But at the same time, something of your real self dies, because objectified meanings lose the actuality they have in consciousness.

Emil M. Cioran

#42. When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness ... I've lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.

Mike Tyson

#43. When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself; you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul.

Jean Rhys

#44. Love isn't something you can turn off. When it happens, it takes a little piece of who you are. I think sometimes people keep fighting because they're more afraid to lose that piece of them, rather than lose the person they love.

Vi Keeland

#45. What if I have nothing left to fight for? I say, my voice shaking.

"Then you fight until you find something to fight for. But the moment you stop fighting the current, the moment you surrender to it, that's when you are truly lost.

Sherry D. Ficklin

#46. But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life ... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

Brett Favre

#47. I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

Oscar Wilde

#48. I think sometimes when you love something too much, you're that much more aware of how much you have to lose

Karina Halle

#49. There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?

Lisa Belkin

#50. When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place.

Etgar Keret

#51. I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#52. Only when I make movements away from the tribe of indie art and literature. Maybe that's something important for me to keep thinking about. What you gain, what you lose, why and how. Maybe the edge of the page is the place for me. Maybe that's OK.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#53. How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad.

Elvis Presley

#54. You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

Rafael Nadal

#55. When I run across something so incredible that I want to show it to someone else. The problem is, when you make the choice to be a loner, you lose that privilege.

Jodi Picoult

#56. Even when you win you lose ... if you didn't learn something.

Robert Kiyosaki

#57. When you have something meaningful to say, you lose your desire for much grammar; for only in the incompetence of words does one seek the redeeming power of vocabulary.

King Samuel Benson

#58. I think that when you live in a world with limits ... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life

Jodi Picoult

#59. When I can stand up without scaring the shit out of a hospital full of people, will you maybe want to go get married or something? Because I'm scared to death I'm going to lose you if I don't make you legally mine.

Mercy Celeste

#60. Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'

Chris O'Dowd

#61. They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis

George R R Martin

#62. Hang on to the inner body, let it be the anchor, then you're present. If they say something challenging and you lose it again, pause, and anchor again. Practice, practice, continuous practice-becaus e when you're in touch with the inner body, spaciousness arises.

Eckhart Tolle

#63. When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.

Tullian Tchividjian

#64. It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

Gabrielle Zevin

#65. Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours, if you care enough about me to take it.

Willa Cather

#66. If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

Gary Panter

#67. Jo? Look at me. I'm about to do something really f**king stupid. When I do this, I need you to remember three words for me. Omni rosae spina." Thorn
"Every rose has its thorn?" Jo
"Good, you understand Latin. Yes. Commit those words to memory in the event I lose control. Okay?" Thorn

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#68. I think there are times in life when you need something to lose yourself in, something to take away the pain, take away the feeling of everything else. Something to numb it. Just for a while. - Nash

M. Leighton

#69. When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larry Brown. When we win, I know that I get the praise and Larry Brown gets the praise, but when we lose, it's on me and Larry Brown. That's something that I have to learn to accept and deal with.

Allen Iverson

#70. If you want to live above the clouds, you will miss the rain! When you want something beautiful, you must also know that you may lose some other beautiful and even more valuable things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#71. Even when you'd lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.

Jenny Valentine

#72. It's you. It's only been you for me. When I came into your life, I might've seemed strong, but I wasn't. I had nothing to lose. When you have nothing to lose, you're capable of doing a lot of damage, but suddenly I had something to lose. You.

Tijan

#73. Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

Hillary Clinton

#74. Why is that so hard? They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? He

George R R Martin

#75. You really shouldn't trust a soul in this game. Not when everyone has something to gain or lose.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#76. There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.

Ali Liebegott

#77. Sometimes when you take chances you lose chances. And sometimes when you lose chances, you gain something else. Don't live for chances. Sometimes it's better to lose chance and gain purpose. Live for today. You'll find so much more joy.

Marilyn Grey

#78. It's easier to have a go at something again when you failed at it as you've got nowt to lose.

Karl Pilkington

#79. When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in an object that reminds you of them, something ... I don't know ... even an earring

Orhan Pamuk

#80. It's a weakness to care. When you care, you have something to lose.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#81. Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.

Jim Evans

#82. I like all different kinds of music. I never heavily molded myself after rappers. Sometimes they say when you think something and you go to say it, you lose a lot of color about what you're trying to say, so to me the best rappers are the people that don't lose that color.

Drake

#83. Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no big deal. But if you lose, you're gutted, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that's like, because I've been having that gutted feeling since 1979.

Richard Griffiths

#84. When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what's marvelous about it.

David Plotz