Quotes About Loss

her insan sevdiÄŸi ÅŸeyi öldürür. Ceza öÄŸesi budur belki de.

Having lost his worldly goods, the refugee had become a fabulous collector, lugging around the portable property of memory and quotation.

I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn't want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I'd just fallen in love with.

You instinctively know that nothing will ever be the same, and you have to carry that knowledge around with you like a huge weight. The next time you see your girl, you can't look her straight in the eyes the same way you did for all those years.

Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.

It was all tragic information because it wasn't me, but I definitely didn't lose interest and move on

In books, you love somebody and want them, win them or lose them. In real life, so often, you love them and don't want them, or want them and don't love them.

Since the baby had died, they had had no other child.

That morning was the last time I saw Moreland. It was also the last time I had, with anyone, the sort of talk we used to have together. Things drawing to a close, even quite suddenly, was hardly a surprise.

For most people, the fear of loss is much greater than the desire for gain.

If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are . . . a different game you should play. —YODA

The bottom line is, if we feel like we're losing something, we avoid it; we won't do it.

You can also lose everything you've saved and invested. So whatever you put in your Risk/Growth Bucket, you have to be prepared to lose a portion or even all of it if you don't have protective measures in place.

whatever your favorite investment might be, at some point in your life, you can count on it dropping 50% to 70% in value. While there's unlimited potential for upside in this bucket, never forget that you could lose it all (or at least a significant portion). That's why I call this the Risk/Growth Bucket and not the Growth/Risk Bucket, because growth is not guaranteed, but risk is!

Para la mayoría de la gente, el temor a la pérdida es mucho mayor que el deseo de ganar.

If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started—and that takes something you can never get back: time.

Don't lose money!" But for many investors, that means having to settle for mediocre returns in the Security Bucket.

For most people, the fear of loss is much greater than the desire for gain. Which

People don't know their true tolerance for risk until they've had a real-life experience taking a significant loss.

He was again a member of the British House of Commons, — was again in possession of that privilege for which he had never ceased to sigh since the moment in which he lost it. A drunkard or a gambler may be weaned from his ways, but not a politician.

But he was chiefly angry with himself for this, — that he had been a villain without gaining anything by his villainy; that he had been a villain, and was to lose so much by his villainy.

Those who depart must have earned such sorrow before it can be really felt. 

Nobody had yet spoken to her about her father since she had been at Framley. It had been as though the subject were a forbidden one. And how frequently is this the case! When those we love are dead, our friends dread to mention them, though to us who are bereaved no subject would be so pleasant as their names. But we rarely understand how to treat our own sorrow or those of others.

as he cared no longer for the light that lies in a lady's eye, there was not much left to him in the world but cards and racing.