Loss Quotes

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.

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.

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

You're always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me.

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

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.

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.

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.

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.