Loss Quotes · Page 37

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

— Charlton Heston

“Identify, I've learned, can be sliced many ways and there is gain with every loss.”

— Peggy Orenstein

Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.

— Andy Rooney

No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.

— Julianna Baggott

Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.

— Sun Bin

“and it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you are bold with unknowing, you are ready to explore.”

— Terra Elan McVoy

“I could kill you a thousand times over Abraham, but we would never be even. You took everything I had.”

— Christopher Buecheler

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

— May Sarton

MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my…

— Chris Kyle

Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream -- of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete -- lives the…

— Glenn Kurtz

Had Hillary Clinton taken [Bill Clinton's advice], I think she could have mitigated her losses but I still think [Donald] Trump would…

— Mary Matalin

On this day, countless lifes were born. And just as many lifes will fade away. It will be the same tomorrow, and…

— Anonymous

Loss is like a closed road that forces us to turn around and find another way to our destination. Who knows what…

— Gerald Sittser

“Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value…

— Brent Green

It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to…

— Benjamin Franklin

I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like…

— George Saunders

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the…

— Elizabeth Drew

If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when…

— Jeff Schultz

Now to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life, I do this under protest and impelled by…

— Liliʻuokalani

The roots of our grief coil so deeply into loss that death has cometo live with us like a family member who…

— Susan Abulhawa

In the wake of the pain, economic loss, and unprecedented global suffering caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, I am greatly saddened that…

— Tasuku Honjo

Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in…

— Kamisese Mara

So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless.…

— Zhuangzi

I don't really talk about this because it seems indulgent, but I lost my hair, I'm bald, I had alopecia in my…

— Greg Mottola

“I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

“Paco, we are all so much more than our faults, aren’t we?”

— R. Elizabeth Carpenter

He who wants everything every time will lose everything any time.

— Vikrant Parsai

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

— Washington Irving

Kevin Williamson and I wrote a show about loss and grief that just so happened to have vampires in it.

— Julie Plec

“Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.”

— Jodi Picoult

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

— Walter Scott

“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“No mark survives this place: you too will yield to unmemory.”

— Mathew Henderson

Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.

— Judith Viorst

If games are required to be played behind closed doors, the loss of income becomes a big factor for every club.

— Simon Jordan

“She can endure pain and loss without any trouble, but she doesn't know how to react facing happiness.”

— Elsa Schiaparelli

“He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.”

— Julie Orringer

Accept that you have lost, but never accept that you have failed.

— Anonymous

The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win

— Jack Youngblood