Loss Quotes

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

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.

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.

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.

You're always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me.

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.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

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.

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.

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

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.

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.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

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.

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

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.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.