Loss Quotes
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What I want to know is how you go on when you look around
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have. — Charlotte Eriksson
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have. — Charlotte Eriksson
Accepting the loss of a loved one is difficult. But reconciling with the living is just as important.
— Edie Claire
We know the end is overrated, we'll become the walls we raise. We don't believe enough, but we still care.
— Matchbox 20
Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
— James Howell
You learn to always sell stocks quickly when you have a small loss rather than waiting and hoping they'll come back.
— Anonymous
Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.
— Fred Rogers
Every loss leaves a hole in your heart.
— Mitch Albom
If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies
mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies. His voice was choked in his throat. — Elizabeth Gaskell
mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies. His voice was choked in his throat. — Elizabeth Gaskell
One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.
— Mary Gordon
All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.
— David Emerald Womeldorff
You can go on losing after loss.
— Helene Cixous
The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.
— Barack Obama
Love was indeed a big responsibility. One must use the word judiciously. One cannot love one day and take away love the next day. It is total caring.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya
Because the reality of death has not yet penetrated awareness, survivors can appear to be quite accepting of the loss.
— Joan Didion
[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.
— Judith Martin
I guess it takes one to know one, and two can play that game.
— Siobhan Davis
I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again ...
— John Geddes
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
— Elizabeth Berg
The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition.
— Lynda Cheldelin Fell
Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?
— Arthur Miller
I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
You can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.
— Jodee Blanco
Loss is a significant force that can serve as a catalyst for change. It can bring about an awakening, drawing out something sacred within us.
— Mark Ireland
There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds.
— Jandy Nelson
Anything said is gone as soon as it leaves my lips. Things written down at least have a chance to leave a soft echo of what had been.
— Chris Dietzel
Living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement.
— Vladimir Nabokov
No loss is without opportunity. No failure is without valuable lessons. Plunge in. It will, at worst, be a valuable experience.
— Vironika Tugaleva
The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.
— Samuel Beckett
A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.
— Alexander McCall Smith
The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality.
— Dada Bhagwan
Blessed is the woman who has never had anything to love. She can never know the heartbreak that comes with losing it.
— Kenn Bivins
There are a million ways to lose someone you love.
— Tammara Webber
It's what we do, we continue on. Yet, what is the point?
There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us. — D.R. Hedge
There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us. — D.R. Hedge
If it weren't for errant passion, death, despair, and loss, the great bulk of art would never have been born.
— Irvin D. Yalom
In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.
— Alfred Romer
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
— Stefan Kanfer
For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.
— Holly Goldberg Sloan
This is what I know about loss. It doesn't get better. You just get (somewhat) used to it.
— Jennifer Niven
What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?
— Rachel L. Schade
When heads are at a loss bodies must serve.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.
— Jack Welch
A healing heart has no time frame.
— Nikki Rowe
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
— John Taylor
David overcame Goliath. Job withstood loss. Faith will carry you through the day. Just believe.
— Derrick L. Randall
The only time you ever really lose love is when you choose to let it go.
— Jessica Fortunato
Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
A man in loss is not a man to trust.
— Auliq Ice
Identify, I've learned, can be sliced many ways and there is gain with every loss.
— Peggy Orenstein
Restlessness is usually a sign of changes needing to be made, boredom, or loss of significance.
— April Mae Monterrosa
I should be scared, but I am far too excited to let in any fear.
— Aimee DuFresne
I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do.
— V.C. Andrews
What people miss presumably isn't danger or loss but the unity that these things often engender.
— Sebastian Junger
Everything changed ... even the things we didn't want to.
— Ashley Jeffery
It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself.
— Grant Morrison
Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it.
— Lauren Bowles
A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles.
— Belsebuub
There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.
— Donald Rumsfeld
The loss of the ball - the loss of the young man - and all that the young man might be feeling! - It was too wretched!
— Jane Austen
To lose someone after you've loved them was tougher than losing them when you've never even met them.
— Diyar Harraz
What is one man's gain is another's loss.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Transformation
without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss
is just an illusion of true change. — Wm. Paul Young
without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss
is just an illusion of true change. — Wm. Paul Young
He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.
— Phillip W. Simpson
The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.
— Renae Jones
And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.
— Edwin Lefevre
The sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Some people are like fragile petals, and they don't recover from hardship. Do we blame the petal? Or do we excuse its fragility and mourn its loss?
— Aleksandra Layland
But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.
— Melanie Benjamin
As we grow up, nothing changes more than the definition of loss.
— Saleem Sharma
Eli was right. The measure of success isn't what you gain. It's what you pay to get it.
— Elmer Seward
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
— David Mamet
I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man's chest.
— Kristen Hope Mazzola
I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole and a 350,000 job loss to a $2 billion surplus and a gain of 350,000 jobs.
— John Kasich
Mortals fantasied that love was eternal and its loss unimaginable. Now we know neither is true. Love remained mortal, while we became eternal.
— Neal Shusterman
Still, the loss of something is significant, and I think that loss is the necessary source of a new manifestation.
— Yukio Mishima
The less I have, the less I can lose.
— Dean Koontz
Eating healthy nutritious food is the simple and right solution to get rid of excess body weight effortlessly and become slim and healthy forever.
— Subodh Gupta
My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.
— Kiefer Sutherland
The answer to most prayers is no.
— Alex George
From loss breeds new beginnings
— Bernadette Marie
I know now, just quite how
My life and love might still go on
In your heart, in your mind
I'll stay with you for all of time. — The Calling
My life and love might still go on
In your heart, in your mind
I'll stay with you for all of time. — The Calling
I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.
— Vaddey Ratner
Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.
— Dean Koontz
Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable.
— Richelle Mead
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
— Russell Baker
In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss.
— Martha Whitmore Hickman
Loss of safe harbor, refuge of grace, where loving-kindness rues one day like another.
— B.G. Brainard
I joked and laughed about things that made other less wounded hearts weep, and I'd learned to harden myself against loss and death.
— Gregory David Roberts
By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.
— Seth Klarman
Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?
— Joyce Rachelle
The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.
— Idries Shah
Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.
— Chuck Klosterman
We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.
— John Carpenter