Loss Quotes

• The loss of a young life is always difficult to accept. But the senselessness of this act of violence makes it even more painful and all the more difficult to accept and comprehend.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Life
  • Loss
  • Accept

• I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end, that there isn't a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Grief
  • Loss
  • Move On

• As you consider your own life, are there things that you need to change? Have you made mistakes that still need to be corrected? If you are suffering from feelings of guilt or remorse, bitterness or anger, or loss of faith, I invite you to seek relief. Repent and forsake your sins.

  

  C. Scott Grow
  • Mistake
  • Prayer
  • Loss

• We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.

  

  William Henry Ashley
  • Moving
  • Horse
  • Swagger

• That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Chance
  • Suicide
  • Catastrophe

• Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Things
  • Loss
  • Teaches

• Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Loss
  • Sadness
  • Passing Away

• I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Game
  • Hours
  • Next

• That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Long
  • True

• The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Enemies
  • Compensate

• I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Mother
  • Strong
  • Relationship

• The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage.

  

  Andy Peebles
  • Death
  • Piano
  • Rolling Stones

• The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

  

  P. D. James
  • Loss
  • Tragedy
  • Grieving

• My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Brother

• The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.

  

  Tony Scott
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Failing

• We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Justice
  • Moral
  • Honor

• No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.

  

  William Cowper
  • Cat
  • Reflection
  • Kitten

• An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Country
  • Fighting

• Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not a few of them will suffer shipwreck, and some-the loss of their souls. Let the indiscriminate viewer beware.

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • Men
  • Today
  • Christian

• Empathy feels these thoughts; your hurt is in my heart, your loss is in my prayers, your sorrow is in my soul, and your tears are in my eyes.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Heart
  • Hurt
  • Eye

• We need to recognize the buildings that are the most dangerous and would cause the most loss of life. They need to be identified, then strengthened or replaced.

  

  Chris Poland Circle Jerks
  • Dangerous
  • Recognize
  • Cause

• Lord, for the erring thought Not unto evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed, and baffled still: For the heart from itself kept, Our thanksgiving accept. For ignorant hopes that were Broken to our blind prayer: For pain, death, sorrow, sent Unto our chastisement: For all loss of seeming good, Quicken our gratitude.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Prayer

• He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Loss
  • Numb
  • Numbness

• But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • Friendship
  • Sorrow

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