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Losing Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given…
- The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are…
- The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing…
- Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and…
- There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.
- Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your…
- When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives…
- Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
- Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be…
- Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to manuever you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your…
More Losing Quotes
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum… — Karen Armstrong
- Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing. — Lance Armstrong
- You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. — Arthur Ashe
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature. — Michelle Bachelet
- A friend in power is a friend lost. — Henry Adams
- I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there… — Emmanuelle Beart
- After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to… — Valerie Bertinelli
- It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved… — Kate Beckinsale
- Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce