loss Quotes

“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

topic:fear loss

“The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. —is sure to be noticed.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

topic:self loss

“To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:evil loss

“'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.”

― Alfred, Lord Tennyson

topic:love loss

“If my heart is breaking—let it break! That will not make the world bankrupt—nor even me; for man is so much greater than the things he loses in this life. The very ocean of tears has its other shore, else none would have ever wept.”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

topic:loss

“But come; loss now will be gain then! To wait is harder than to run, and its meed is the fuller.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:waiting loss

“Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.”

― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

topic:memory loss

“Things are sweeter when they're lost.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:desire loss

“You must save what you can of your life; you mustn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:life loss

“I’ve lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

topic:war loss

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