Loss Quotes · Page 41

The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit.

— Walt Disney

Find the balance between the calories you take in and the ones you burn up.

— Jane Fonda

The loss of a loved one is one of the most tragic and devastating things a person could endure.

— Anonymous

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

— William Shakespeare

Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

— Hugh Prather

At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.

— Thomas H. Cook

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

— Dan Simmons

We take more time looking at what we lost instead of looking at what we might have won in the process.

— Omar Damaj

“It was a humbling thought, to realize the weight of the world could not break him, but the loss of her could…

— Joey W. Hill

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of…

— Gilbert White

There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only…

— Ann Patchett

The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how…

— Edan Lepucki

“Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there,…

— Anne Frank

I was really devastated following the loss of my first pregnancy, not just a physical pain, but an aching sense of loss…

— Porsha Williams

Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong;…

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

“Tears don't bring people back." Pain stabs from my chest to my fingertips. "Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They are…

— C.J. Redwine

My dad died in May of '97. The effects of his death immediately were not all that hard, but a year or…

— Wayne Watson

I think the hearing loss started with 'Bonanza.' Sometimes the director would put us in a box canyon and have us fire…

— Lorne Greene

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Mothering while grieving should involve being understanding and keeping a gentle attitude toward yourself as you work to balance your own needs…

— Elizabeth Berrien

Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought…

— Neal Stephenson

But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest…

— Laurence Sterne

“But in the weeks and months after Chidi died, still engulfed in darkness, I felt ready to die too; by which I…

— Lauren Collins

“What is the balance-sheet of the worldly life? Is it a profit or is it a loss? There is a loss for…

— Dada Bhagwan

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

— Rumi

“Her mouth tightens. 'Have you no more memories?' I am made of memories. 'Speak, then.”

— Madeline Miller

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

— Jay London

Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!

— Stephen Keshi

“You mean to tell me you're mourning the loss of someone who never existed?”

— Taylor Nadeau

“The gastliness of nothing. Because I was nobody's sister now.”

— Rosamund Lupton

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

— Charles J. Givens

“It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it”

— Oscar Wilde

“No anger, at least not yet … only a sick sense of loss and abandonment.”

— Stephen King

What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?

— Paul Valery

“He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.”

— Jack London

No we can't make up for lost time. That's your loss not mine.

— Anonymous

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

— Mark Spitz

“I count everything loss, to gain anything under the power of grace in Jesus Christ.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The inactivity of a conqueror betrays the loss of strength and blood . . .

— Edward Gibbon

“Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.”

— Rosie Thomas