Quotes about Loss
All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
— Aesop
Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.
— Alain de Botton
My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.
— Dolly Parton
Sometimes things we take for granted every day can be taken from us permanently and suddenly, we're changed forever.
— Don Piper
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I did not die, and yet I lost life's breath
— Dante Alighieri
If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
— Desmond Tutu
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
— Virginia Woolf
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
— Steve Jobs
At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
— Watchman Nee
How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
— Ernest Hemingway