Loss Quotes

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

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Enemies
  • Compensate

• As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

  

  Noam Chomsky
  • Science
  • Questions
  • Loss

• I don't think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job.

  

  Sarah Chalke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Jobs

• Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Girl
  • Childhood
  • Magnificent

• There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that.

  

  Hafez
  • Good
  • Different
  • Heart

• It's deeply human to do both the worst things and the best things because of your fear of loss.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Humans
  • Worst
  • Loss

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

  

  William Cowper
  • Cat
  • Reflection
  • Kitten

• 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

• I believe it's our loss of connection with our instinctual side that prevents us from being effective pack leaders for our dogs. Perhaps it's also why we also seem to be failing at being positive guardians of our planet.

  

  Cesar Millan
  • Connection
  • Leaders
  • Dogs

• If you personalize losses, you can't trade.

  

  Bruce Kovner
  • Loss
  • Trade

• When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Money
  • War
  • Soul

• Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Spiritual

• Rich people see opportunities. Poor people see obstacles. Rich people see potential growth. Poor people see potential loss. Rich people focus on rewards. Poor focus on the risks.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Focus

• If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Country
  • Wish

• All Americans should be deeply troubled by the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. We've seen such tragedies far too many times, and our hearts go out to the families and communities who've suffered such a painful loss.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • Community
  • Loss

• When you want something so bad it hurts,” he said quietly, “and you bury it, bury it so deep that you convince yourself it no longer matters . . . and someone tells you you can have it, it's terrifying. What if you take the chance and you're wrong? What if you let yourself feel the loss and it's this huge pain and you can't put it back in the box?

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Bad
  • Pain
  • Deep

• 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 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

• ...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Gullibility

• Loss is not as bad as wanting more.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Bad
  • Loss
  • Wanting

• I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back. With any bad situations I’d experienced before - a bad game or my two previous divorces - I got over them. This time I just could not get out of the hole. The anxiety attacks were frequent and extensive. I had weight loss, which I’d never had before. I couldn’t stop crying. And if I wasn’t crying, I was angry, bitter, hateful and mean-spirited. I couldn’t sleep - couldn’t concentrate. It just got crazy.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Crazy
  • Sleep
  • Anxiety

• The pain of your loss will return. Less, but still considerable. I know you've worked hard to release it, but it can still take hold of you. I will help you sing away the fury, but I will not bear it for you.

  

  Alex Bledsoe
  • Pain
  • Loss
  • Considerable

• If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes it down, so there's one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there's another transmission loss. So he's involved with three information losses. Whereas what I nearly always do is work directly to the sound if it doesn't sound right. So there's a continuous loop going on.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Loss
  • Musicians
  • Composer

• 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

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