Losing Everything Quotes

• Life is about losing everything, gracefully.

  Mia Farrow

  Losing, Life Is

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• I have had the privilege of losing everything.

  Byron Katie

  Adversity, Privilege, Losing

  Twitter post from Jul 01, 2013

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• Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Grief, Hurt So Much

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• It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sad, Wisdom, Freedom

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Love, Hurt, Pain

  "Fictional character: Jack Lewis". "Shadowlands", www.imdb.com. December 25, 1993.

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• At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

  Mike Tyson

  Acquiring Things, Life Is, Thoughts On Life

  "Tyson can't beat Father Time" by Chuck Johnson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 12, 2005.

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• Success is getting to a point where you'd be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.

  Tony Hsieh

  Starting Over, Losing, Starting

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• I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Real, Feelings, Losing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Dread, Ifs, Security

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.638, 谷月社

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• Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness... happiness is when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

  Tony Hsieh

  Culture, Losing, Enough

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• No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mistake, Mean, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 10, 2015

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• If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.

  Meg Rosoff

  War, Thinking, Long

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• I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.

  Jean Chretien

  Perfection, Risk, Seeking

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chretien (Chapter Eight "A New Constitution", p. 189), 1985.

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• As an individual, as a household, you can't spend more money than you're bringing in. You can do it for a little while, but you end up going broke and you end up losing everything you have. That is the path that we're on as a country, and it scares me to death.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Country, Scare, Littles

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 21, 2012.

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• I can't stop myself from reaching for the bottle that's under my seat. I've gone all night without a sip, but it's not about being addicted. It's about being told what to do my whole life and doing it and then losing everything anyway.

  A.S. King

  Night, Gone, Bottles

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• After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.

  Dave Ramsey

  Money, Mistake, Quests

  Dave Ramsey (2013). “The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness”, p.3, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.

  John Travolta

  Believe, Class, Feelings

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• Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

  Alice Hoffman

  Life, Mean, World

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Realms, Honour

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• I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Sheep, Losing Control

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• Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

  Dane Cook

  Ego, Elements, Want

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• It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.

  Viola Spolin

  Daily Activities, Goal, Effort

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.12, Northwestern University Press

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• Don't let the sun go down on me
  Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see
  I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
  But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

  Elton John

  Song, Sun, Fragments

  Song: Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

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• I will never take the fact that I am Welterweight Champion for granted. I learnt my mistake in the past. No matter how great, no matter how people tell me how great I am, I'm always one mistake away from losing everything.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mistake, Wrestling, Past

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• And I met your baby moms last night. We took a picture together, I hope she frames it. And I was drinking at the Palms last night. And ended up losing everything that I came with.

  Drake

  Life, Mom, Baby

  Song: Over My Dead Body, Album: Take Care, 2011

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