Loss Quotes

Kavita’s arms are still outstretched, but they hold nothing. After the metal gate clangs shut behind them, Kavita can still hear Usha’s piercing wail echoing inside.

~ Shilpi Somaya Gowda

It was Boom Boom Dupont who had ripped Kit out of the Humvee after the IED went off, the IED that turned the entire undercarriage of his truck into a fiery wall that consumed the five men inside.

~ Siobhan Fallon

Sadness is a grieve spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We lose our soul, to find our life.

~ Joanne Crisner

We may not ever understand why we suffer or be able to control the forces that cause our suffering, but we can have a lot to say about what suffering does to us, and what sort of people we become because of it. Pain makes some people bitter and envious. It makes others sensitive and compassionate. It is the result, not the cause, of pain that makes some experiences of pain meaningful and others empty and destructive.

~ Harold S. Kushner

A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost ends and real life begins.

~ Nathan Ballingrud

Always remember that you are the observer and not the doer. Do not take life to be anything more than acting. Don’t identify yourself too much with the action.Whether you are a wife or husband, a businessman or client, don’t get too involved. Don’t lose yourself in it, for you are simply playing a role in the play. Keep outside of it, and within yourself. These are all necessary parts of life. You must go to work, it is necessary. The play is delightful if you see it as play, but it is fatal if you take it to be life. There is no reason so disrupt your life. You have to play the part that life has given you.

~ Osho

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

~ Venus Williams

I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.

~ Koo Stark

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

~ Democritus

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

~ B. H. Liddell Hart

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

~ B. H. Liddell Hart

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

~ Lech Walesa

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

~ Annie Lennox

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

~ Marlo Thomas

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

~ Winston Churchill

If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.

~ Sun Yat-Sen

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

~ Cristiano Ronaldo

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

~ Julia Cameron

The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.

~ Kara Walker

People do really well on space missions, but it's the physiological, the medical stuff, the stuff like radiation, loss of bone mass and muscle mass and density. It's those things that we need to figure out.

~ Scott Kelly

The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

~ Madeleine M. Kunin

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.

~ Wesley Snipes

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

~ Marcus Aurelius

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

~ Saint Basil

I'm not against working out. It's just not effective for weight loss. I like strength training to tone and firm the body so you look tight. But working out just makes you hungrier.

~ Jorge Cruise

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

~ Mother Angelica

Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.

~ Carlene Carter

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

~ Lynn Redgrave

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

~ Marco Tempest

Following Michael Brown's death, I went to Ferguson and met with his parents. I stood with them as they tried to hold their heads high and deal with both their immense loss and the larger issues of police-community relations.

~ Al Sharpton

There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being.

~ Brie Larson

Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't.

~ Luanne Rice

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

~ Brad Pitt

In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

~ Noam Chomsky

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.

~ John Desmond Bernal

I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.

~ Mick Cornett

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

~ Leigh Hunt

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.

~ Mark Hyman

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

~ Thomas Sowell