Quotes About Loss

Stupid,' she said. That was the only word for this sense of enormous loss where there had been so very little to lose.

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un—We surely belong to Allah and to him we return.

Grief is a closet Full of emptiness As shoes Without your feet, Hats Without your head.

Masses of Iraqis keep on dying for no palpably tangible reason that they can so much as identify to themselves, far less anyone else. Why?

I see now... The most important things I have... I lose them, no matter how much I care for them.

If innocence is believing the world is a safe and just place. That summer I lost mine.

I managed to convince myself that I'd left Bulgaria behind for good. I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as a loss. Nowhere to call home? No problem, the world is my oyster. Where are you from? they ask. Does it matter? I answer. But it does.

sealed zinc coffins, like the fallen Russian soldiers in Afghanistan – so that no one would know how they had really died.

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

When my mum passed away, I was very young, and I became very introverted and very quiet. I became very anxious about what people thought about me.

I know the death of my grandmother acted as a catalyst to somehow turn something on because before 10 I didn't really have many intuitive experiences.

That's why I be so careful with my money and always try to invest. I see people who have it all and then lose it.

I'm a conservative businesswoman in a way because I try not to invest too much to the point that if things go bad, I'd lose a lot.

I invested all my money in debt.

I lost my computer business when I was 29 because I gave credit to firms I didn't investigate. I lost my house and had to move back in with my parents and then I lived in an office for six months.

Many businesses in an investment bank, not only at UBS, are structurally a loss leader, so they don't pay for the cost of capital.

When I first started doing influencer marketing for my company Due, I lost my shorts with literally no return on my investment.

I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

My investments have been hurt.

One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.

The Iran I'm dreaming of maybe doesn't exist anymore.

What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.

We used to speak Irish - Gaelic Irish - around the dinner table, but over the years, we lost that.

When I see good films not doing well, irrespective of my role being appreciated or not, I have a problem because then the producer who has made a loss will never believe in investing in good cinema.