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Losing Quotes by Yann Martel
- Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps…
- To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a…
- Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and…
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