L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.”
Source: A Fine Balance
“Loss is exclusively the result of lack of communication.”
“Loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“Loss is like a closed road that forces us to turn around and find another way to our destination. Who knows what we will discover and see along the way.”
Source: A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss
“Loss is loss," Mal said. "You have the right to grieve.”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.”
Source: Tricks
“Loss is merely a tool for evaluation, organization, determination and actualization towards being the best you that you can possibly be.”
“Loss is not as bad as wanting more.”
“Loss is not known at once. It is a debt that accumulates.”
Source: House of Leaves
“Loss is not the opposite of love. It is a part of it.”
Source: The History of Our Future
“Loss is nothing compared to the loss of life.”
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
“Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!”
“Loss is part of our story, it isn’t the story.”
Source: Water Lily Dance
“Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.”
“Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.”
Source: Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart
“Loss is the cost of loving”
Source: Call Us What We Carry
“Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.”
“Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.”
Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd
“Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.”
“Loss is the worst kind of pain. But a life with nothing to lose? That's no life at all.”
Source: The Artist and the Dragon
“Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.”
“Loss isn’t a textbook process. It’s different for everyone. Yeah, we want advice and steps—anything to shorten the pain. But grief can’t be hurried or pummelled with self-help. It’s just there. The only way out of it is through it.”
Source: Dearest Josephine
“Loss isn't singular”
Source: The Fine Art of Grieving
“Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.”
Source: Trumpet: Picador Classic
“Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void.”
Source: Wishing You Happiness
“Loss makes artists of us all as we weave new patterns in the fabric of our lives.
[quoted in Willis, Opening to grief]”
“Loss makes me feel vulnerable. I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much on Earth, too much suffering. The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.”
“Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.”
“Loss means separateness.”
“Loss of a relationship is painful, but if you lose yourself in a relationship, when it ends, it's devastating, because you are lost.”
“Loss of any sort should stir up emotion; if it doesn’t, it’s because we’ve trained ourselves to be numb. We’ve bought into the great societal lie that emotional and sensitive is bad, is shameful, is weak, and worse yet is unlike Him.”
Source: This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
“Loss of cell phone reception inside of a building generally indicates that the following two issues may be present: 1. High electromagnetic interference (EMI) environment from dirty electricity that is being generated by electronic products. 2. Shielding and Faraday cage effects from metalwork in the building.”
“Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen enemy, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength. Stealing our will, for what are we without empathy? What manner of joy might we find in our live if we cannot understand the joys and pains of those around us, if we cannot share in a greater community.”
Source: The Silent Blade
“Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen emey, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength- Drizzt Do'Urden”
“Loss of focus is what most worries Charlie and me when we contemplate investing in businesses that in general look outstanding.”
Source: The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America
“Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine. To simplify the environment as we have done with agriculture is to destroy the complex interrelationships that hold the natural world together. Reducing the diversity of life, we narrow our options for the future and render our own survival more precarious.”
Source: Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity
“Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.”
“Loss of identity was a terrifying prospect.”
Source: Katabasis
“Loss of meaning is often part of the suffering that comes with physical loss, but it can also happen to people who have gained everything the world has to offer - who have made it in the eyes of the world - and suddenly find that their success or possessions are empty and unfulfilling.”
“Loss of passion in a relationship isn’t caused by lack of desire but shortage of sensuality.”
“Loss of roots and lack of tradi tion neuroticize the masses and prepare them for collective hysteria. Collective hysteria calls for collective therapy, which consists in abolition of liberty and terrorization. Where rational istic materialism holds sway, states tend to develop less into prisons than into lunatic asylums.”
Source: Aion
“Loss of roots and lack of tradition neuroticize the masses and prepare them for collective hysteria. Collective hysteria calls for collective therapy, which consists in abolition of liberty and terrorization. Where rational istic materialism holds sway, states tend to develop less into prisons than into lunatic asylums.”
Source: Aion
“Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value.”
“Loss of trust matters because distrust leads people to disengage from their communities, reduce commitment to their workplace and lose the degree to which they share important information with each other. In short, without trust, people focus on self-protection and become unwilling to make themselves vulnerable. (...) People who lack trust are limited in what they can accomplish together.”
Source: The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
“Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes
“Loss provides an opportunity to take inventory of our lives, to reconsider priorities, and to determine new directions.”
Source: A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss
“Loss pushes us to difficult places where we have not been before. We often question whether or not we have the courage and stamina to survive the pain. However, we often are given gifts that tell us that we are not alone and that we can withstand the journey.”
Source: Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two
“Loss remade me, but it also cleared space for what came next.”