Quotes on Loss

That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.

Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back.

They will often tell me they can't love themselves because they are so fat, or as one girl put it, 'too round at the edges.' I explain that they are fat because they don't love themselves. When we begin to love and approve of ourselves, it's amazing how weight just disappears from our bodies.

Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.