Loss Quotes - page 2

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. (Lawrence Wright)

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

James Frey

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Marcus Aurelius

Recipe for greatness To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great.

Zane Grey

Accept loss forever.

Jack Kerouac

On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

Arnold J. Toynbee

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

Isaiah Berlin

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Robert Southey

For I say, this is death and the sole death, When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

Robert Browning

Still falls the Rain - Dark as the world of man, black as our loss - Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails Upon the Cross.

Edith Sitwell

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss. (George Reisman)

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Alan K. Simpson

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

Arthur Helps

Disintegration of structure equals information loss.

Gregory Benford

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

Publilius Syrus

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

William Blake

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Malcolm X

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

William Wordsworth

We take no note of time but from its loss.

Edward Young

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. (Leigh Hunt)

Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.

Jack McDevitt

Nothing that grieves us can be called little by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

Mark Twain

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we are at no loss to perceive that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Tryon Edwards

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