Loss Quotes
The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
Lech Walesa
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
Stephen Hawking
One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.
Mary Gordon
It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
Tom Clancy
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
Nicole Kidman
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Tryon Edwards
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.
George Kennedy
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. Wilson
And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.
Lynn Redgrave
I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
David Hockney
You're always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me.
Hope Solo
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
Dennis Potter
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
Epicurus
Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
Allen Klein
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
Saint Basil
I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Robert Southey
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam Chomsky
Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the third Capt. that has been killed in that company.
John H. Morgan
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
Phil Donahue