Quotes About Loss

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.

In the three years I played ball, we won six, lost seventeen and tied two. Some statistician ... calculated that we won 75 percent of the games we didn't lose.

To lose Is to learn.

Time bears away all things.

Losses are comparative, only imagination makes them of any moment.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses.

Sweets to the sweet; farewell!

And by my grave you'd pray to have me back So I could see how well you look in black.

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night, I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle, thoughts that glow; But when shall I attain to this- To thank Thee for the things I miss?

The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

So many of us define ourselves by what we have, what we wear, what kind of house we live in, and what kind of car we drive ... if you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower, that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known that immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence.

Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Measure thy life by loss instead of gain, Not by the wine drunk, but by the wine poured forth.

The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths.

People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.