Top 585 Loss Quotes

‘Good Times’ is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren’t.
Lynda Barry
Companies that pretend to care about music and really care about other things – whether it be hardware, whether it be advertising – and now they look at music as a loss leader. And we know music isn’t a loss leader; music is an important part of our lives.
Jay-Z
'Huge' is a show about self-discovery and follows kids

‘Huge’ is a show about self-discovery and follows kids at a weight loss camp. My character is shy, so when she meets Nikki Blonsky’s character Willamena Rader, who’s not, they become friends.
Raven Goodwin
It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?
Paramahansa Yogananda
The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.
Richard Simmons
In Israel, we are sorry for the loss of life of Turkish citizens in May 2010, when Israel confronted a provocative flotilla of ships bound for Gaza. I am sure that the proper way to express these sentiments to the Turkish government and the Turkish people can be found.
Ehud Olmert
An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.
Andre Aciman
I mean, I don’t want to sound – of course it’s very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.
Todd Solondz
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
Dan Quayle
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon
I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss.
Francine Prose
The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry – astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
Sally Ride
My focus on 9/11 was on the victims – in the towers, in the planes – and all that loss.
Kiefer Sutherland
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
Gary Larson
I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
Jonathan Dimbleby
I do not remember any questions in my childhood other than questions about death and about loss, and it was clear that the books that filled the house were not as interesting as the conversations outside.
Svetlana Alexievich
I bemoaned the pending loss of Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act.
Marti Noxon
We can see loss as something missing, but that missing space can be filled with something else, and that creates healing.
Hirokazu Kore-eda
The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. That leads to weakness, sluggishness, slow times. In girls, it can also result in cessation of menstrual periods, which in turn leads to loss of bone density and frequent stress fractures.
Don Kardong
Not many people can say they had their first big title loss to Ronda Rousey. I guess I’m OK.
Alexa Bliss
After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.
Edmund Phelps
2014 was a pretty bad year for me. Quite a lot of loss.
Winston Marshall
This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.
Daniel Yergin
Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God’s suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.
Henri Nouwen
Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
Anne Grant
Long before I ever got incarcerated, I should’ve been able to access services that help me deal with the grief and the loss of my son, that help me deal with the trauma, the abuse that I experienced as a child.
Susan Burton
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
Boris Trajkovski
The military has been determined to control the images of war since Vietnam. They’re convinced that they lost the war because of loss of political support back home, because people saw what was going on.
Bob Simon
I’m a girl who enjoys a great meal with great friends, so I’m not really that concerned about weight loss.
Jill Scott
If GE’s strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
Jack Welch
I’m prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar!
Jennifer Hudson
There has been loss of steel manufacturing. Those people need jobs. Where you have to build the third airport is where people are. So you’re right; if his site isn’t playable, then our site is right next to it.
Richard M. Daley
I’ll take an ugly win over a pretty loss any day.
Julian Edelman
When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize.

When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.
Andrew Shue
I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.
Jay London
Several years ago, I began losing my hair, and like a lot of men, it was a major concern to me, in fact it was practically an obsession. But, also I’m an actor, so I’m in the public eye a lot and I really felt that my hair loss could affect my career prospects.
James Nesbitt
I think when Kevin Nash put himself on the booking committee and then gave me my first loss, that was beginning of the end.
Bill Goldberg
High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from bone and therefore decreased bone density.
Joel Fuhrman
You can wear yourself out by saying yes to things you don’t want to do, and nobody really minds if you say no. I enjoy my own company. I’m never at a loss for things to do.
Anne Reid
There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.
Jane Hamilton
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
Penelope Lively
I read everything that Tolkien wrote, and also read biographies of him. I was fascinated by his experiences in World War I, which includes the loss of life of some of his very, very close friends. I think he writes about that a lot in ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings.’
Richard C. Armitage
It’s harder to be angry at home when we lose. When it was just me and the missus, she didn’t mind. She’d take the wrath of the loss! But it’s harder when there’s a little baby now.
Harry Kane
My dad was a plumber. That’s hard work. He never missed a day of work. I will never disrespect him by not showing up for an athletic competition that has a maximum duration of 25 minutes. There should be forfeiture if you have to pull out of a fight. If you don’t show up, it should be a loss on your record.
Chael Sonnen
The sinner who suddenly realizes God’s love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death.
Mother Angelica
The pain of retirement means loss.
John Murray
The death of an Italian tailor might not be calamitous in Catania or Cagliari, but the loss to Soho is immeasurable. We don’t have Italian tailors we can spare here.
Howard Jacobson
Since JPMorgan Chase announced its surprise $2 billion-and-growing trading loss, there have been renewed calls from economists, pundits, and politicians to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act, a Depression-era law that prevented commercial banks from participating in investment banking activities.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I’m at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.
Hart Crane
Yoga has helped me to see death as more of a gift than a loss, and that has been my experience so far.
Christy Turlington
You’re always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me.
Hope Solo
Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.
Jim Mattis
People bemoan the loss of watercooler chat, but I think that there’s more of that than ever. It’s just that it’s online.
Charlie Brooker
Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a family break up. It is hard to protect against those.
Elizabeth Warren
There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity.
Norman Davies
Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.
Meghan O’Rourke
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Dick Gregory