Losing Quotes

2661 Losing quotes by 1801 unique authors

She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was… — Graham Greene
The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which… — Frantz Fanon
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most. — David Brooks
But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing… — Benedict Freedman
Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief… — Neil Gaiman
When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other… — Swami Satchidananda
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made… — Paulo Coelho
For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities. — Lance Armstrong
We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take… — Alberto Manguel
Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My… — Haruki Murakami
Every time the phone rang, my heart jumped. Was it Alexander? And when it wasn't him my heart would break into a million pieces. It… — Ellen Schreiber
No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's… — Haruki Murakami
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and… — Michel de Montaigne
One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who… — Leon Uris
I'll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you'll die a little death. — Ai Yazawa
But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior… — Isaac Asimov
The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful… — Gary D. Schmidt
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If… — Michael Ondaatje
We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of… — William Shakespeare
There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death. — C.S. Lewis
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. — Virginia Woolf
A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six… — Anna Quindlen
You should read something else." Why would he have done that to him?" I don't know," she said. Do you ever feel like Job?" She… — Nicholas Sparks

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