Loss Quotes - page 47

For three years I was immersed in a depression, I did not know how to assimilate the loss of my voice, which was a reality. (José José)
It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life. View quote
Will Self
You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened. View quote
Brett Favre
Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human. View quote
Bruce Willis
I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up. View quote
Taylor Swift
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. View quote
David Mamet
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis. View quote
Margaret Chan
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges. View quote
James Baldwin
Only, stay by his side Till the page is really known, It may be we failed because we tried To learn it all alone, And now that He would not let us lose One lesson of love (For He knows the loss,) - can we refuse? View quote
Frances Ridley Havergal
And so they've killed our Ferdinand,' said the charwoman to Mr Švejk, who had left military service years before, after having been finally certified by an army medical board as an imbecile, and now lived by selling dogs - ugly, mongrel monstrosities whose pedigrees he forged. Apart from this occupation he suffered from rheumatism and was at this very moment rubbing his knees with Elliman's embrocation. 'Which Ferdinand, Mrs Müller?' he asked, going on with the massaging. 'I know two Ferdinands. One is a messenger at Průša's, the chemist's, and once by mistake he drank a bottle of hair oil there. And the other is Ferdinand Kokoška who collects dog manure. Neither of them is any loss. View quote
Jaroslav Hašek
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle. (Charles Spurgeon)
Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without. View quote
Anne Lamott
If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well. View quote
David Petraeus
Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it. View quote
Sue Monk Kidd
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God. View quote
Ellen G. White
It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out. View quote
Tom Hiddleston
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go. View quote
Samuel Richardson
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46. View quote
Alvin Toffler
I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss. View quote
Dan Simmons
Neglected by Congress below; pinched with every want here; distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army - which may rather be called a great rabble - our late unhappy retreat from Quebec, and loss of the Cedars; our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us; are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them. View quote
Benedict Arnold
Profit or loss is not guaranteed. That depends on the consumer and depends on the product. That's a risk that business people take. (Mukesh Ambani)
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. View quote
B. H. Liddell Hart
In our times, good relations benefit all. Any worsening of relations anywhere is a common loss. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
My illness is alive, the threats to my life are real; yet it is only my death I feel, only the lessening made by my own loss. I am gone, Kohler, right now; and who is so dead as one so dead to a moment of life that life can't raise him up? Not to be here, not to see tomorrow-which, when I see it I shall find as stupid and empty as I found today-is appalling, Kohler, appalling... to slip into the insignificance of history like a thought held in a dream... View quote
William H. Gass
My own Jesus, They say people in hell suffer eternal pain because of the loss of God – they would go through all that suffering if they had just a little hope of possessing God. View quote
Mother Teresa