Loss Quotes

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill)
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. View quote
John Steinbeck
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. View quote
J. M. Barrie
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories. View quote
Washington Irving
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. View quote
Elizabeth Bishop
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. View quote
James Madison
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live. (Norman Cousins)
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. View quote
Lou Reed
Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem. View quote
Elizabeth Bowen
I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss. View quote
Dylan Moran
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. View quote
Denis Diderot
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender. View quote
Tupac Shakur
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. (Honoré de Balzac)
While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes. View quote
Mark Hyman, M.D.
I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses. View quote
Caleb Carr