Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Loss.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.
Queen Victoria
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
Paulo Coelho
I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine
Albert Camus
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Elisabeth Bishop
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
Jos
There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.
Kurt Vonnegut
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
Jodi Picoult
For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away.
Charles Dickens
If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.
C.S. Lewis
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
John Green
We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
General Robert E. Lee
Whoever said, It's not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost.
Martina Navratilova
When by the Ruins oft I past My sorrowing eyes aside did castAnd here and there the places spyWhere oft I sate and long did lie.Here stood that Trunk, and there that chest,There lay that store I counted best,My pleasant things in ashes lieAnd them behold no more shall I.Under the roof no guest shall sit,Nor at thy Table eat a bit.No pleasant talk shall 'ere be toldNor things recounted done of old.No Candle 'ere shall shine in Thee,Nor bridegroom's voice ere heard shall bee.In silence ever shalt thou lie.
Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Verses u
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
William Shakespeare
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert Frost
There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner but there is really only one way to be a loser and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure.
Kyle Rote Jr.
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.
I never lost a game. I just ran our of time.
Bobby Layne
