Quotes about loss
loss known
Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known. Jiddu Krishnamurti
loss grandchildren ideas
A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons. Jeremy Rifkin
loss somewhere-else feelings
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
loss get-over
There are some losses we never get over. Lauren Oliver
loss looks weight
Imagine a weight-loss program at the end of which, instead of better health, good looks, and hot romantic prospects, you die. Somalia had become just this kind of spa. P. J. O'Rourke
loss light darkness
Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in spite of everything. But it had to pass through its own answerlessness, pass through frightful muting, pass through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech. It passed through and gave back no words for that which happened; yet it passed through this happening. Passed through and could come to light again, “enriched” by all this. Paul Celan
loss language spite
Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.
loss figures teach
Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along. Patti Davis
loss life-is worst
The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing. Patricia McConnell
loss weight excited
I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure. Maeve Binchy
loss visionaries world
He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated. Madonna Ciccone
loss way eras
The loss of Jerry Garcia feels like the end of an era in the same way it felt when Elvis died and John Lennon was killed. Lyle Lovett
loss excuse
A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse. Michael Jordan
loss army fighting
The president [Barack Obama] decided to leave more troops than he had originally planned in Afghanistan. We have a very cooperative government there, with Ashraf Ghani and his top - his top partner, Abdullah. And they are doing their very best. And the Afghan army is actually fighting. The Afghan army is taking heavy losses defending Afghan territory. Hillary Clinton
loss
Hold on to the love, not the loss. Eva Longoria
loss bitter obituary
It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries. Evan Esar
loss lions meals
One meal a day is enough for a lion and would be for all of us if all we did all day was swat flies. Erma Bombeck
loss two dieting
In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
loss thinking perception
I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical. Erin O'Connor
loss maybe privacy seem
I haven't really experienced as much of a loss of privacy as maybe it would seem from the outside, Dave Matthews
losses quite shows somewhat team
I have to look at the one-run losses as somewhat of a positive. It shows that we're a team that has some character, we just don't have quite enough. Buddy Bell
loss brain sad-person
I've always been a sad person. I'm a happy person too, but it's a thing in my brain or my spirit or something, I'm just sad and really acutely aware of mortality and loss. Fernando Torres
loss people deafness
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people. Helen Keller
loss men intellectual
We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial. Christopher Alexander
loss funny-friend men
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. Francis Bacon
loss hands years
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?
loss practice sweat
There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money; for when money can be had in this way, repayment is seldom thought of in time, the interest becomes a loss, exertions to raise it by dent of industry cease, it comes easy and is spent freely, and many things (are) indulged in that would never be thought of if (they were) to be purchased by the sweat of the brow. George Washington
loss mysterious-things mind
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind. George Orwell
loss resolution resolve
Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution. Fyodor Dostoevsky
loss grieving love-loss
Why is the measure of love loss? Jeanette Winterson
loss glasses gains
I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.
loss joy life-is
My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. Isabel Allende
loss people drug
Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an illness at all. Often, it can be a normal reaction to abnormal situations. Poverty, unemployment, and the loss of loved ones can make people depressed, and these social and situational causes of depression cannot be changed by drugs. Irving Kirsch