Loss Quotes

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

Jane Austen

The cheerful loser is the winner.

Elbert Hubbard

Now the two of them rode silently toward town, both lost in their own thoughts. Their way took them past the Delgado house. Roland looked up and saw Susan sitting in her window, a bright vision in the gray light of that fall morning. His heart leaped up and although he didn't know it then, it was how he would remember her most clearly forever after- lovely Susan, the girl in the window. So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

Stephen King

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

Jodi Picoult

Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often.

George E. Allen

I have seen enough, too, to know that it is not always the youngest and best who are spared to those that love them; but this should give us comfort rather than sorrow, for Heaven is just, and such things teach us impressively that there is a far brighter world than this, and that the passage to it is speedy.

Charles Dickens

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

Hirohito

When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose.

Goran Ivanisevic

How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.

Cassandra Clare

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

C.S. Lewis

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

Troy Aikman

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

George Bernard Shaw

Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void.

Pam Brown

The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

O. J. Simpson

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

Jimmy Connors

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

Mark Twain

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

Jodi Picoult

It's so easy to ignore loss to others but so difficult to ignore loss to yourself.

Ashik Uzzaman

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

Bill Bradley