Loss Quotes

• Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss rekindles desire, makes people have conversations they haven't had in years, takes them out of their contrived illusion of safety.

  

  Esther Perel
  • People
  • Desire
  • Powerful

• Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Children
  • Fall
  • Effort

• And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

  

  Candace Wheeler
  • Grief
  • Found
  • Given

• The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Poor
  • Benefits
  • Taxes

• Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships. It is actually the ability to use energy data to make decisions in the immediate moment.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Mean
  • Decision
  • Loss

• At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?

  

  André Aciman
  • Grief
  • Loss
  • Overcome

• We're man enough to step in there and fight our hearts out and you have to be man enough to deal with a loss.

  

  Michael Bisping
  • Heart
  • Fighting
  • Steps

• He was always part of her thoughts, and now that he was real, he was inescapably part of her life, but it was as she had told her mother: saying he was part of her or that they were more than friends sounded like love, but it seemed like loss as well. All the words she knew to describe what he was to her were from love stories and love songs, but those were not words anyone truly meant.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Story

• I've seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I've seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of some greater plan explainable by reference to the actions of a divine being with a divine purpose.

  

  Neil Abramson
  • Believe
  • Action
  • Purpose

• No matter how difficult things are, and no matter how much grief and loss there is, you can turn it into something positive.

  

  Michael Sheen
  • Matter
  • Difficult
  • Grief

• It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.'

  

  Paul Newman
  • Women
  • Winning
  • Tired

• I let my face go blank and nodded slowly. "Yes.The trolls.Back. With me. Cannot form.Complete sentences." I shook my head. "Yeah,so not happening." He considered me,annoyed and at a loss for what to do next."I don't kill humans." "Me niether!See,common ground already.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Common
  • Sentences
  • Annoyed

• How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of admitting that you have been rejected.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Pain
  • Loss
  • Embarrassment

• No, I'm not (disappointed). There's no reason to be because I'm on an incredible run. You always expect a loss once in a while. So when it happens, why be disappointed if I win over 90% of my matches.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Running
  • Reason
  • Winning

• I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Men
  • Important
  • Mean

• It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Opinion
  • Safety
  • Management

• We all share a type of physical body that becomes ill or heals for the same reasons. We also share emotional and psychological crises common to the human experience. Everyone fears abandonment, loss and betrayal; anger is as toxic within a Jewish body as it is within a Christian, Muslim or Hindu body; and we are all drawn to love. When it comes to health of our spirits and our bodies, we have no difference.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Christian
  • Loss
  • Betrayal

• I have more energy to run after our four children. Weight loss and great skin were a bonus!

  

  Niecy Nash
  • Children
  • Energy
  • Running

• It goes without saying that the stability of the Middle East is the foundation for peace and prosperity for the world, and of course for Japan. Should we leave terrorism or weapons of mass destruction to spread in this region, the loss imparted upon the international community would be immeasurable.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • World
  • Community
  • Peace

• Those who know in their hearts that they are not really necessary -- and are entirely replaceable-- must inevitably be tempted to misrepresent the nature of their work and build up a false notion of its importance. A further alienation from truth takes place, a further loss of contact with reality. And one thing we can be sure of is that self-deception, whether on the level of the wind and the rain or on that of spiritual reality, must always come up against the real sooner or later, and that its destruction is very painful.

  

  Charles le Gai Eaton
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Reality

• No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Money
  • Evil
  • Envy

• For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Loss

• Most organizations only focus on WHAT they do and HOW they do it - tactics and strategies - and they aren't even aware that this thing called the WHY exists. Focusing on only two pieces of a three piece puzzle leaves an organization, or a career, inherently out of balance. Being out of balance, only operating on two of the three pieces, shows up in different ways - increased stress, loss of passion, obsession with what your competition is doing, being forced to play the price game, trouble differentiating. These are all signs that the WHY is missing.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Different
  • Passion
  • Focus

• It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Stupid
  • Girlfriend
  • Grieve

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