loss quotes

• Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun. (Hilaire Belloc) [loss/death/life/shadow]
• Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem. (Elizabeth Bowen) [women/loss]
• When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer. (Edmund Burke) [life/loss/moment]
• Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill) [loss/enthusiasm]
• Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor. (Eric Hoffer) [loss/loss]
• I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories. (Washington Irving) [loss]
• A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians. (William James) [instinct/loss/weakness/willpower]
• To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends. (Thomas Jefferson) [loss]
• Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue. (Samuel Johnson) [hope-disappointment/shame/loss/mind]
• Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor. (Samuel Johnson) [prudence/life/loss/advantage]
• It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. (Karl Kraus) [literary style/loss/ability]
• If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [company/loss]
• O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. (John Milton) [loss/enemies/beggary/age]
• Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. (Marilyn Monroe) [loss/minority/right]
• Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride -- they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [ugly/danger/loss/ugly]
• The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty. ( Seneca) [loss/time//future]
• Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. (William Shakespeare) [men/loss]
• If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor. (William Shakespeare) [loss/men/share]
• Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. (Susan Sontag) [culture/result/loss/experience]
• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. (Dale Carnegie) [worry/loss]
• It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted. (Adrien Brody) [understanding/loss/people/take]
• For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. (Charlton Heston) [loss/loss]
• The whole series is about the loss of innocence, ... In the first one ['The Sorcerer's Stone'], everyone's very wide-eyed, almost naïve. Harry's thinking that because he's entering a magical world, it's got to be better than the world he's come from. But it's not — it's just got further extremes. It can have extreme joy, but there are also the depths that man can sink to. (Daniel Radcliffe) [loss/thinking/joy]
• The whole series is about the loss of innocence. In the first one ['The Sorcerer's Stone'], everyone's very wide-eyed, almost naïve. Harry's thinking that because he's entering a magical world, it's got to be better than the world he's come from. But it's not — it's just got further extremes. It can have extreme joy, but there are also the depths that man can sink to. (Daniel Radcliffe) [loss/thinking/joy]
• My upbringing made me as I am now. But I can become merry and happy at once. There were many years I was feeling at a loss about my life or how I grew up. I couldn't understand what is right or what is precious. At that time, I was so miserable and self-defeating. I was feeling angry with various things. My anger came up to the surface then. I don't say such tendency has disappeared. Even now there are anger and the dark side in myself. But it's the first time I've been so close to the light. (Johnny Depp) [feeling/loss/life/right]
• He went home to Kentucky to deal with the loss of his father and the funeral arrangements and so on (Orlando Bloom) [housing/loss]
• This is obviously a very disappointing loss for me and our team.” (Tom Green) [loss]
• “I walk on the set every day since his ... you know, since his death, and feel a great loss. It feels like a very organic ending to the show with him gone because I just can't imagine doing it without him.” (Allison Janney) [day/death/loss]
• Everything in life comes to an end. I've known loss. I've lost my husband, I've lost friends. When my husband died, I was devastated. (Doris Roberts) [life/loss]
• “It's a huge loss for us. It's like losing your child, like your child has died. We're not going to be able to visit her. We're not going to be able to talk to her or look at her or anything. It's going to be hard. In the morning, I love to see her smile and wake up and hear her laugh. I'm not going to have that anymore.” (Michelle Rodriguez) [loss/child/child/look]
• “For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.” (Michelle Pfeiffer) [being/loss/loss/privacy]

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