Quotes About Loss

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.

Love me, for I must depart.

We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for regret. We took our risk with you; you died and we live. We take your noble gift, salute for the last time those lines of pitiable crosses, those solitary mounds, those unknown graves, and turn to live our lives out as we may.

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.

They showed him in a thousand ways they wanted to make him part of their club, but ... what was their club for? That was half the problem: they were trying to be so nice. Teddy Kennedy sent a shrink up to Wilmington, for the boys ... Kennedys knew about loss.

We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.

like maintaining the grounds of a castle when the knight, fallen in battle, will never be returning

Baron Rothschild quipped that there are "three principal ways to lose your money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far more certain.

Nothing is sadder than an old whore.

Some you win and some you lose. Be glad when you win. Don't have regrets when you lose.

Everything's gone,' I heard someone say. I thought of the lifetime of diaries and photographs disappearing up in smoke and I turned to Mia and Joe. 'Remember, it's not material things that matter in life,' I told them. 'Things aren't important, people are. All that matters is that everyone is safe.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.

You can't revisit a place where you were happy, as you can't re-love someone you've loved and left" ~from "Package Tour

Accidentally Shot As a mark of affection by his brother.

white-collar and corporate/industrial crime—perpetrated mostly by whites—causes more personal injury, death, and property loss than does all street crime combined, even on a per capita basis.)

In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.

How empty is the world when you lose the one you love

What I know is, you have a better chance in life-of surviving it-if you tolerate loss well;manage not to be a cynic through it all;... to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good,even if the good is not simple to find. We try, as my sister said. We try.

What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if admittedly good is often not simple to find.

Loss aversion helps produce inertia, meaning a strong desire to stick with your current holdings.

Roughly speaking, losing something makes you twice as miserable as gaining the same thing makes you happy. In more technical language, people are "loss averse.

specific values to objects. When they have to give something up, they are hurt more than they are pleased if they acquire the very same thing.