Quotes on Loss

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.

Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.

If I disappoint someone, it's their loss for putting that expectation on me when they don't know me. I can't control what they want.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.

All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is.

Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

If there's one thing this team doesn't lack, it's competitiveness and a desire to win. No matter if we come off a win or come off a loss, it seems like we don't really care. We're always motivated to win.

The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.

Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.

A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her children; again she fears for the women and children who belong to her children. ... For each of these-whether for loss of possessions, bodily illness, or undesired misfortune-she mourns and grieves no less than those who suffer.

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

To see a friend who has suffered the loss of all things begin again with trust and love, gives us strength to continue on.

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.