LOSS QUOTES II

quotations about loss

loss quote

I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.

J. D. SALINGER

The Catcher in the Rye

Tags: J. D. Salinger


The still affection of the heart
Became an outward breathing type,
That into stillness past again,
And left a want unknown before;
Although the loss had brought us pain,
That loss but made us love the more.

ALFRED TENNYSON

"The Miller's Daughter"


So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Sputnik Sweetheart

Tags: Haruki Murakami


He who carries nothing loses nothing.

FRENCH PROVERB

Tags: French proverbs


It is better to lose than lose more.

SPANISH PROVERB


That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.

SENECA

attributed, Cassell's Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words

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Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss,
But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry VI, Part III

Tags: William Shakespeare


Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.

BRIAN RUCKLEY

Fall of Thanes


You snooze, you lose.

AMERICAN PROVERB


After one loss comes many.

FRENCH PROVERB


Many things are lost for want of asking.

ENGLISH PROVERB


Loss and possession, death and life are one,
There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

HILAIRE BELLOC

The Verse of Hilaire Belloc

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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

"Which Was the Dream?"

Tags: Mark Twain


That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more:
Too common! Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.

ALFRED TENNYSON

"In Memoriam A.H.H."


The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

ELIZABETH BISHOP

"One Art"

Tags: Elizabeth Bishop


'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

ALFRED TENNYSON

"In Memoriam A.H.H."

Tags: Alfred Tennyson


Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.

ANNA QUINDLEN

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

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He who does not gain loses.

FRENCH PROVERB


Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

ROBERT FROST

"The Ingenuities of Debt"

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A little loss frightens, a great one tames.

SPANISH PROVERB