Loss Quotes

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the third Capt. that has been killed in that company.

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

Accept loss forever.

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.