Quotes About Loss

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart.

I've misplaced it all, but I can't seem to lose my brother. It's a priceless gift--to have his love at a time when I've done nothing to earn it.

You chose love and you lost.

Losing someone doesn't scare me. Death doesn't scare me. What scares me is the inability to no longer feel the touch of the one you love.

This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love.

When I lost you...my world darkened beyond any known shade of black, and the only light that I have seen since is you...

Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether.

The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

What matters isn't what a person has or doesn't have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.

One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic." Statistics stay silent in us.

What matters isn't what a person has or doesn't have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.

When people get rich, they shed their skin-in-the-game-driven experiential mechanism. They lose control of their preferences, substituting constructed preferences for their own, complicating their lives unnecessarily, triggering their own misery.

The number of cultured people dropped below some critical level. Suddenly the place became a vacuum. Brain drain is hard to reverse, and some of the old refinement may be lost forever.

Now for reasons that have to do with the increase of the artificial, the move away from ancestral and natural models, and the loss in robustness owing to complications in the design of everything, the role of Black Swans in increasing.

the negative effect for an average loss to be up to 2.5 the magnitude of a positive one); it will lead to an emotional deficit.

Sadly, it may be even worse for you to make $10 million, then lose back nine, than to making nothing at all! True, you may end up with a million (as compared to nothing), but it may be better had you got zilch. (This assumes, of course, that you care about financial rewards.)

antifragility equals more to gain than to lose equals more upside than downside equals asymmetry (favorable) equals likes volatility.

I experienced a loss of pleasure in writing!

I engage in a gambling strategy that has 999 chances in 1,000 of making $ 1 (event A) and 1 chance in 1,000 of losing $ 10,000 (event B), as in Table 6.1. My expectation is a loss of close to $ 9 (obtained by multiplying the probabilities by the corresponding outcomes).

The effect of the leverage is that a small loss would be compounded and would wipe him out.

Brain drain is hard to reverse

He is not you, not a member of your family, so he has no direct emotional loss should your health experience a degradation.

more suicides come from shame or loss of financial and social status than medical diagnoses.

Cuál es la probabilidad de morir en un accidente aéreo?», por ejemplo, las personas aumentan el grado de probabilidad. Sin embargo, Slovic y sus colegas descubrieron, en patrones del mundo de los seguros, que en las pólizas la gente se olvidaba de esos sucesos altamente improbables. Dichos investigadores llaman a este fenómeno «la preferencia por asegurarse contra pequeñas pérdidas probables», a expensas de las menos probables pero de mayor impacto.