Best Loss Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.”

People Speak Realizing Loss Normal Harder Everyday Hearing Accents Everyday Life Normal Life Hearing Loss

“In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.”

Play Order Community Loss Roles Hearing Deaf Hearing Loss

“I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo.”

Problem Loss Four Conditions Disease Ears Pressure Hearing Symptoms Fluid Retention Hearing Loss Vertigo

Author:Katie Leclerc

“All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.”

Matter Loss Policy Gains Gains And Losses

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.”

Feels Humans War Hands Humanity Natural Loss Environment Resources Property Destroyed Destructive Natural Resources Uneasy Human Hands

Author:Nong ?uc Manh

“Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back.”

Facts Problem Jobs America Moving President Loss Economy Bigger Deeper President Obama Franklin Great Depression Predecessors Job Loss Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Author:Martin O'Malley

“And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.”

People Mother Loss Struggle Empathetic

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.”

Loss Tiny Enormous Paradoxical

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.”

Mother Dies Loss Knowing Prepared

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.”

Facts Loss Grief Known Television Periods Drama Moved Chaos Intense Narrative Internals Friendly Chaotic Static Moved On

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.”

Ifs Loss Business Figures Profit Finance Excitement Sheets Indictment Profit And Loss

Book:Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

Source: Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

“Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.”

Humans Earth Water Loss Growing Changed Periods Demand Diversity Fuel Human History Ecosystems Fiber Irreversible Timber Fresh Water Diversity Of Life

Author:Gary Larson

“The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.”

“You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.”

Young Guy Loses Loss Young Guys

Author:Bill Parcells

“I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.”

People Light Loss And Love Dear Touched Franklin Dear Friend Saddened Light And Love

Author:Mackenzie Phillips

“If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.”

Ifs Loss Cry Loss Of A Friend Personal Loss

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.”

Knows Jobs Loss Mines Poet Make Sense

Author:Dan Quisenberry

“There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.”

Realizing Loss Secret Disappointment Holes Vacuums Disappointment In Friends

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.”

Way Father Loss Share Huge Dad Directors Areas My Dad Mum His Loss

Author:Natasha Richardson

“A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.”

Loss Powerful Fiction Theme Very Powerful

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs.”

Knows Loss Happened Drink Drug Freak Arrows Control Freak

Author:George Saunders

“Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.”

Stills War Ends States Individual Lost Loss Serious Germany Assets Territory Historian Participation Colonization Meaning Nothing

Author:Gustav Stresemann

“With all his greatness and accomplishments on the guitar, Dime will be missed more for his giving personality, charisma, caring for others, love and most of all his heart. Twice as big as the state of Texas. Dime gave it all every day to each and every one of us and our lives have forever been hollowed without him… Thanks to all of you for reaching out to us in this time of our immeasurable loss. Rest in peace brother Dime.”

Giving Heart States Bigs Loss Forever Our Lives Greatness Brother Personality Guitar Caring Thanks Accomplishment Reaching Texas Reach Out Charisma Dimes Caring For Others Rest In Peace

Author:Vinnie Paul

“Be honest! You are not going to want to admit energy loss. Someone is making it hard for you to look.”

Want Looks Hard Energy Loss Honest Being Honest

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.”

Feels Pain Joy Humanity Term Loss Existence Buddhism Guilt Complexes Remorse Filing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.”

Feels Pain Happiness Life Is Loss Pleasure Like You Buddhism Unique Gains Breaths

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.”

World Pain Happiness Hate Loss Pleasure Love You Buddhism Circumstances Gains Happy Being Happy Hate You Love Hate World Love Happiness Is A Choice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?”

Ifs Together Sex Loss Pleasure Creation Buddhism Opposites Unions Oneself Sexuality Temporary Coming Together What Is Life Yang Yin And Yang

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled.”

Ifs Writing Heart Littles Real Hurt Dark Loss Rooms Son Broken My Heart Happenings Died My Son I Was Hurt

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.”

Source: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

“There is a certain sense of loss when a series ends.”

Ends Certain Loss Series

Author:Jodi Sweetin

“If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Loss Results Office Paper Messages Consequence Response Access Commit Magazines Boss Reporters Candor

Author:Ron Suskind

“I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.”

People Want Mean Courses Sound Term Loss Nice Come Up Privacy Small Things Very Nice Anonymity Appreciative Nice People

Author:Todd Solondz

“Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!”

Want Writing Wells Shows Guy Stuff Sides Loss Love Loss

Author:Tristan Wilds

“There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.”

Different Political Culture Religious Loss Poverty Despair Rivers Gender Fanaticism Repression Apartheid

Author:Lawrence Wright

“Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.”

Ifs Inspirational Doe Causes Loss Buddhism Circumstances Slave Bounds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Ifs Inspirational Loss Buddhism Lifetime Wasted Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.”

Self Together Sound Loss Wind Bird Gains Wave Self Realization Realization Beach Settling Transition Hinduism Together Again

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.”

Heart God Father Loss Tears Broken Doctors Wipe Doctor Who

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.”

Looks Faces Loss Equal Gains Revelations Sincere

Author:David Whyte

“That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South. They didn't look back, and they often didn't tell their children about it. They didn't want to talk about it. It was too painful, what they'd gone through and the caste system of the South, which was Jim Crow.”

People Thinking Want Looks Children Left Loss Gone South Painful African American Crow Castes Jim Crow American Family Caste System

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.”

People Way Spiritual Law Loss Worship Finals Idols Humanness Humanness Is

Author:N. T. Wright

“Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.”

Ifs Knows Needs Humans Hard Enough Shows Body Loss Broken Degrees Stronger Filled Bones Medical Holes Cracks Replaced Human Body Healed Healed You

Book:Come Home: A Novel

Source: Come Home: A Novel

“If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Character Feelings Memories Loss Struggle Meditation Willing Rate Corruption Settling Abundance Vague Dissatisfaction Provocative Zimbabwe Specifics

Author:Jabari Asim

“Slenderman can invoke memory loss in all but the most resolute - you could have already had a Slenderman encounter and not remember it.”

Remember Memories Loss Encounters Invoke Resolute Memory Loss

Book:101 Amazing Slenderman Facts

Source: 101 Amazing Slenderman Facts

“Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.”

Thinking Loss Gains Loving Someone

Book:how to save your own life

Source: how to save your own life

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

Knows Form Nations Loss Identity Defeat Contemporary Inevitable Colonization National Identity

Author:Slobodan Milosević

“I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.”

Problem Loss Losing Vulnerability Distress Disturbing Neurotic Disturbing Things Losing Things

Book:Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

“This Dewdrop World is a beautiful, courageous, intimate film about love and loss. It may also be the deepest meditation on climate change that I've ever seen.”

World May Beautiful Film Loss Meditation Climate Climate Change Intimate Courageous Love And Loss

Author:Jeff Goodell

“Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.”

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