Loss Quotes - Page 37

• Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.

  Teresa of Avila

  Upset, Saint, Littles

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• Make sure that your ambitions are really lofty - not just seem to be. Sometimes instead of engaging in those so called "mountaintop employments of great value," we spend our time in digging a pit and then falling therein, so that our temporary joy may become a permanent and bitter loss.

  Sterling W Sill

  Time, Fall, Ambition

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• We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions. We know it is the fashion of the age to use credit to the utmost limit. . . . We, therefore, repeat our counsel . . . to shun debt. Be content with moderate gains, and be not misled by illusory hopes of acquiring wealth. . . . Let our children also be taught habits of economy, and not to indulge in tastes which they cannot gratify without running into debt.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Running, Hope, Fashion

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• Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Friendship, Men, Understanding

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Men, Reputation

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• Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

  Laozi

  Strength, Way, Tao

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

  Clifford Geertz

  Strength, Religious, Pain

  Clifford Geertz (2017). “The Interpretation of Cultures”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• [I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at something of a loss. Were it not for his politics, he would be virtually forgotten.

  Paul Krugman

  Understanding, Would Be, World

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• Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Justice, Choices, Liberty

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Power of Ideas”, p.27, Princeton University Press

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• The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

  Sarah Fielding

  Imagination, Wife, Liberty

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (fl. 1753) (1754). “The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes”, p.80

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• The first game was different but tonight we were just worried about getting ourselves back on track. It's another loss. We've got to keep going, keep trying to get out of this and win on Saturday.

  Dany Heatley

  Winning, Games, Track

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• I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Outcomes, Awful, Recognition

  Joseph O’Neill (2012). “Netherland”, p.27, HarperCollins UK

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• The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Hostage Crisis, Issues, People

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 25, 2004.

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• A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in one’s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in – into the centre of a raging hurricane. And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Rain, Thinking, Odds

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• For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and judgement, and, over time, dismantles, from within, the body.

  Charlie Huston

  Sleep, Judgement, Doubt

  Charlie Huston (2010). “Sleepless”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. The grown-ups looked so silly framed in their living-room and kitchen windows. They complained about their days and signed deep sighs of depression and loss. They talked about how spoiled and lucky children were these days. We will never be that way, we said, we will never say those things.

  Jill McCorkle

  Children, Silly, Kids

  Jill McCorkle (2003). “Creatures of Habit”, p.1, Algonquin Books

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• The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.

  Shana Alexander

  Sex, Deep Love, May

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• I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on
  the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.

  Duke of Wellington

  Gains, September, Should

  Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) (1837). “The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index”, p.404

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• Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.

  William Raspberry

  Life, Moving, Plot

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• Edwards said he would like to be remembered for the impact he has had on the lives of his players. In this business we are judged by wins and losses in the media. I don't discount that, but I've never concerned myself much with that . . . except that it helps me stay employed.

  LaVell Edwards

  Life, Winning, Player

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• LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Spiritual, Body

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.150, University of Georgia Press

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• When in the wondrous realms above Our Saviour had been called upon, To save our world of sin by love, He said, "Thy will, O Lord, be done.' The Kings of kings left worlds of light, Became the meek and lowly one; In brightest day or darkest night He said, "Thy will, O Lord, be done." No crown of thorns, no cruel cross Could make our great Redeemer shun. He counted his own will but loss, And said, "Thy will, O Lord, be done." We take the bread and cup this day, In memory of the Sinless One, And pray for strength, That we may say, As he, "Thy will, O Lord, be done."

  Frank I. Kooyman

  Kings, Memories, Night

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• There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single instinctive drive or emotional image can carry him into a one-sidedness that makes him lose his balance...his one-sidedness and consequent loss of balance are much dreaded by primitives, who call it 'loss of soul.' Another threat...circles around particular complexes

  Carl Jung

  Men, Emotional, Circles

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• There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts.

  Gene Mauch

  Sports, Winning, League

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• He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

  William Blake

  Love, Sports, Laughter

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.894, Delphi Classics

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