Top 1200 Tough Loss Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

No lifetime is a loss if you've leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if you have learned.

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

It's going to take more than one loss for me to hang up my gloves; that's for sure.

Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.

To battle the odds - loss of interest, no funding, discouragement - requires someone who doesn't give up.

We are all shocked and saddened by the devastating and untimely loss of Kimbo Slice, a beloved member of the Bellator family.

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

Loss of natural areas threatens our water supply, national security, farms, and health.

Christian hedonists don't discount suffering, they just don't give up until they find the gain in loss.

I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.

Kevin Williamson and I wrote a show about loss and grief that just so happened to have vampires in it.

I don't think I'll ever tell you I had a great performance in a loss. That doesn't make sense to me, to be honest.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

I was born in Grimsby and always lived around there, but it's died a death because of the loss of the fishing industry.

The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine

Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could out-compete real bacteria: They could spread like blowing pollen, replicate swiftly, and reduce the biosphere to dust in a matter of days. Dangerous replicators could easily be too tough, small, and rapidly spreading to stop - at least if we make no preparation. We have trouble enough controlling viruses and fruit flies.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

After every loss, you want to trade everybody. I've felt that way several times.

There are a lot of people across the country, for as silly as this sounds, who obsess about hair loss.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.

Right, because they're looking at also organizing the Sunni tribes up around Mosul to take back that city as well. That's the second largest city in Iraq. That's going to be a very, very tough fight. And the Shia militias were not used in Ramadi, and we're told by the Iraqi generals that they don't want any Shia militias up in Mosul, either, to take back that city. So - but again, that's going to be a very, very tough fight.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline

The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.

No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal.

Sometimes you have to go through a total loss of inspiration to find what really inspires you the most.

When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.

If your rookie can affect a win or a loss early, then his ceiling is going to be crazy.

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.

As you go in there, you keep winning; after you've had a loss or two, people start to humanize you.

This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

'History Is All You Left Me' is about the loss of your first love and how you move on beyond that and if you can.

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

I know that Israeli soldiers will do everything they can in order to avoid loss of innocent life.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

In the movie, I deal with the loss of my legs and adjusting and trying to become a new person, essentially.

The worst loss in my career - the 2002 World Championship final against Peter Ebdon.

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.