Loss Quotes

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Edith Sitwell

Rain, Black, Dark

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Paul Gauguin

History, Art, Become

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
Rachel Weisz

Love, Time, Political

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

Old, Style, Ability

There's a huge emotional component to weight loss.
Carnie Wilson

Emotional, Weight, Huge

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
Lucy Powell

Faith, Long, Growth

In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones.
Ray Comfort

Life, Great, Computers

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
Damian Lewis

Life, Mother, Find

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
Steve Forbes

Freedom, Government, Powerful

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.
Bruce Willis

God, Human, Hair

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
Carrie Fisher

Weight, Tragic, Turns

When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.
Andrew Shue

Change, Time, Important

The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Bad, Down, America

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
Thomas a Kempis

Step, Weakness, Repairing

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
Judy Collins

Life, Love, Trust

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
Mary Pickford

Great, Live, Lives

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.
Paul Theroux

Life, Change, Great

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
Annie Dillard

Life, Work, Everything

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
Lou Reed

Everything, Magic, Bit

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

Life, Death, Sun

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.
Eric Liu

Game, America, National

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
Dan Lipinski

Change, Energy, Problems

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.
Jay London

Book, Hair, Falling

Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.
Michael McCaul

Good, Children, Enough

Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.
Andrew Weil

Through, After, Working

The usual justification for eating extra meals is that it keeps the metabolism 'revved up' so that weight loss is easier. There is, however, very little hard evidence that supports this idea, and a fair amount that disputes it.
Andrew Weil

Hard, Idea, Fair

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.
Melinda Gates

Love, Women, True

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
Arthur Helps

Good, Spiritual, May

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
Talib Kweli

Words, Amplified

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
Knute Rockne

Good, Soul, Coach

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