Loss Quotes
2897 Loss quotes by 1935 unique authors
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I was horrified. Absolutely heart sick. All I could think of was that after 23 years together, I'd lost my faithful ally. I couldn't sleep,…
— Ben Crenshaw
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The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a…
— Chuck Knox
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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the…
— Mark Twain
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There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words…
— Victoria Alexander
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But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not…
— James K. Baxter
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The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.…
— E. O. Wilson
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I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is…
— Dave Reichert
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The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.
— Marcel Proust
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No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble…
— Helen Keller
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
— Dan Quayle
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A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace…
— Oliver Sacks
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A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.
— Adolf Hitler
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The one thing I learned about myself going back and watching tapes of all the losses that we've had is that I'm physically capable of…
— Lisa Leslie
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The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the…
— Bill Russell
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When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity,…
— Jack Kornfield
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... no wisdom that [my kitten] may gain by experience and reflection hereafter will compensate for the loss of her present hilarity.
— William Cowper
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If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.
— Bernard Baruch
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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
— Plautus
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Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.
— Yogi Berra
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A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss,…
— Jack Kornfield
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I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).
— Dolly Parton
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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
— Thucydides
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Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative…
— Thomas Merton
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