Quotes About Loss

It's like World War III. Everything is white. They'll take our bright colors away and use them in the war effort.

Only absences were fully shared.

Money was spiritual indemnity against some unspecifiable future loss. It existed in purest form in his mind, my money, a reinforcing source of meditation.

Why shouldn't his death bring you into some total scandal of garment-rending grief? Why should you accommodate his death? Or surrender to it in thin-lipped tasteful bereavement? Why give him up if you can walk along the hall and find a way to place him within reach? Sink lower, she thought. Let it bring you down. Go where it takes you.

The second plane coming out of that ice blue sky, this was the footage that entered the body, that seemed to run beneath her skin, the fleeting sprint that carried lives and histories, theirs and hers, everyone's, into some other distance, out beyond the towers.

Where were you when James Dean died?" he said in a threatening voice.

Don't these so-called advances also cause us to lose valuable mental skills? Each technological advance that provides a mental aid also brings along critics who decry the loss of the human skill that has been made less valuable. Fine, I say: if the skill is easily automated, it wasn't essential.

Queremos que el Padre Muerto esté muerto. Nos sentamos con los ojos llenos de lágrimas y deseamos que el Padre Muerto esté muerto… y entretanto hacemos cosas asombrosas con las manos.

You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.

Anyone ambitious, who lives to be old or even old , endures the inevitable loss of ambition's fulfillment.

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.

Simply put, we must show people the cost of not doing business with us.

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

When he was almost two, his father was killed in battle during the Seven Years War, the world's first global combat.

In other words, people hate losing $100 more than they like winning $100. This, of course, means loss aversion is a greater motivator of buying decisions than potential gains. In

Perhaps one of the reasons I've avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose.

Stories live and die on a single question: What's at stake? If nothing can be gained or lost, nobody cares.

we must show people the cost of not doing business with us.

people hate losing $100 more than they like winning $100. This, of course, means loss aversion is a greater motivator of buying decisions than potential gains.

in certain situations, people are two to three times more motivated to make a change to avoid a loss than they are to achieve a gain.2

What is it costing your clients to not do business with you?

How much is a confusing message costing you every day? How many customers are bouncing from your website? How many people are ignoring your brand? How many customers are you losing to the competition?