Loss Quotes

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.

We - you and I, and our government - must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage.

My focus is on governance. Country has been at greatest loss because governments were run only for elections. Governments must not run only for elections. The government should be a bona fide attempt of meeting the demands and expectations of the common people.

Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss and failure into success.

They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home. Some will never return.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

My son has died of AIDS.

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!

Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.

When I went to rehab, somebody said to me: 'You're so lucky - normally most people that come here have lost everything and they have to rebuild.' I hadn't really lost anything. I just lost a little bit of respect from my mates.

Working with Love and Death on 'Let Me Love You' was sort of a supernatural experience. I was mourning the loss of a loved one when I recorded the song.

What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

You know nothing can stop me but loss of breath, and I'm still breathing so it's still on.