Quotes About Loss

C'est drôlement dangereux de s'attacher à quelqu'un. C'est incroyable ce que ça peut faire mal. Rien que la peur de perdre l'autre est douloureuse.

Quand on vit aux cotés des gens on ne se rend pas vraiment compte qu'ils changent, et c'est comme cela qu'on finit par les perdre.

It's funny how we always search for reasons not to love—fear of suffering, fear of abandonment—but the love of life, oh, how much you can take for granted until you realize that, one day, you're going to lose all of it.

The only thing scarier than death is the disappearance from youth.

Underneath my grief that day a resolution was hardening into cement: I would never, ever again create something thinking that I would be able to preserve it.

No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

The present moment is the only thing of which anyone can be deprived, at least if this is the only thing he has and he cannot lose what he has not got.

27. Treat what you don't have as nonexistent. Look at what you have, the things you value most, and think of how much you'd crave them if you didn't have them. But be careful. Don't feel such satisfaction that you start to overvalue them—that it would upset you to lose them.

For the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

When the longest- and shortest-lived of us dies their loss is precisely equal. For the sole thing of which any of us can be deprived is the present, since this is all we own, and nobody can lose what is not theirs.

that that life which any the longest liver, or the shortest liver parts with, is for length and duration the very same, for that only which is present, is that, which either of them can lose, as being that only which they have; for that which he hath not, no man can truly be said to lose.

A rock thrown in the air. It loses nothing by coming down, gained nothing by going up.

The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can't lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don't have?

The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.

For a man cannot lose either the past or the future: for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him?

He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if you shall have no sensation, neither will you feel any harm; and if you shall acquire another kind of sensation, you will be a different kind of living being and you will not cease to live.

every man lives the present time only, and loses only this.

And keep in mind too that pain often comes in disguise—as drowsiness, fever, loss of appetite.… When you're bothered by things like that, remind yourself: "I'm giving in to pain.

Treat what you don't have as nonexistent. Look at what you have, the things you value most, and think of how much you'd crave them if you didn't have them. But be careful. Don't feel such satisfaction that you start to overvalue them—that it would upset you to lose them.

still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.

no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.