Quotes about loss
loss wish watches
A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch. Hermione Gingold
loss men fruit
Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses. Hesiod
loss gains
Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.
loss errors begets
The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come. Herodotus
loss evil anxiety
No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms. Henry Fielding
loss terrible
I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction. Joyce Carol Oates
loss together disaster
. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses. Katherine Anne Porter
loss evil spinning
Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them. Karen Russell
loss determined
the lives we lead are determined, for better and worse, by our loss experiences. Judith Viorst
loss growth pay
Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.
loss grieving space
The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own. Kate Mosse
loss people special
I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable. Laurell K. Hamilton
loss light people
I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love. Mackenzie Phillips
loss world destruction
We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. Haruki Murakami
loss sorrow despair
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
loss vices sin
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss. John Dryden
loss long investing
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity. John Maynard Keynes
loss stuff painful
The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it. John Lurie
loss jewels care
General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny. John Locke
loss men ought
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
loss cutting humanity
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
loss taste
The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste. Johann Kaspar Lavater
loss half treasure
The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
loss umpires bells
I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell. Joe Torre
loss people upset
It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of habitats and wild things. Joanne Woodward
loss thinking hell
To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact. Joanne Harris
loss thinking years
We have had so many years of prosperity, we have passed through so many difficulties and dangers without the loss of liberty - that we begin to think that we hold it by divine right from heaven itself ... It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty. John C. Calhoun
loss poetry realization
Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss. John Cage
loss winning excuse
Losses are inevitable, but excuses are optional. John C. Maxwell
loss
There is no success without failure and losses.
loss presence-of-mind brave
I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel. Francois Fenelon
loss long if-i-stay
And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Gayle Forman
loss appeals circumstances
We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money. Livy