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  • Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. -- Norman Cousins
  • I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life. -- Marlo Thomas
  • Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. -- Isabel Allende
  • The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. -- A. C. Benson
  • In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss. -- Edward Bennett Williams
  • Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. -- Anne Roiphe
  • Cinderella' touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life. -- Lily James
  • I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss. -- Patti Smith
  • A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. -- David Whyte
  • The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain. -- Frank Lowy
  • At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. -- Jessica Lange
  • Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss. -- Anderson Cooper
  • Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss. -- Allen Klein
  • In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life. -- Katie Leclerc
  • I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there. -- Damian Lewis
  • In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. -- Bill Vaughan
  • City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur. -- Gavin Newsom
  • We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands. -- Nong Duc Manh
  • People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life. -- Thomas Jane
  • Hate crimes are different from other crimes. They strike at the heart of one's identity - they strike at our sense of self, our sense of belonging. The end result is loss - loss of trust, loss of dignity, and in the worst case, loss of life. -- James Comey
  • Every loss of life is terrible. -- George H. W. Bush
  • We have to prevent loss of life. -- Najib Razak
  • The loss of life will be irreplaceable. -- Dan Quayle
  • Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life. -- Anna Quindlen
  • We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss. -- Plautus
  • Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. -- Lionel Shriver
  • The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on. -- James Patterson
  • To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life. -- Laozi
  • Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. -- Rohinton Mistry
  • Permanent weight loss means making small, manageable changes and sticking with them for life. -- Michael Adam Hamilton
  • It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life. -- George W. Bush
  • Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction. -- Dan Simmons
  • Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life. -- Claire Cook
  • I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss. -- Amor Towles
  • Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. -- Ellen Goodman
  • It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries. -- Evan Esar
  • No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider -- PureDragonWolf
  • Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure. -- Julian Barnes
  • Mixed Martial Arts is a dangerous practice that could result in injuries and loss of life. -- Akshay Kumar
  • Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life. -- Hugh Prather
  • Love in Life is never a battle of 'win' or 'loss' but a journey of unconditional acceptance. -- Sandhya Jane
  • Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. -- Hilaire Belloc
  • What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause? -- Paul Valery
  • Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. -- Stefan Kanfer
  • The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss. -- Erin Hunter
  • A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life. -- Sigmund Freud
  • The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain. -- Bryant McGill
  • Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was. -- Linda Ronstadt
  • The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life. -- Amartya Sen
  • She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life. -- Junot Diaz
  • The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing. -- Patricia McConnell
  • Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
  • The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low. -- Paul Bremer
  • When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step. -- Paulo Coelho
  • As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net. -- Annie Dillard
  • The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss... -- Huldrych Zwingli
  • I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life. -- Paul Bettany
  • There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life. -- Donald Rumsfeld
  • Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating. -- Fernando Pessoa
  • I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss. -- Leni Zumas
  • The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better. -- Richard Ford
  • When you have a major loss in your life, the first thing you need to do is tell God exactly how you feel. -- Rick Warren
  • I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything. -- Chester W. Nimitz
  • Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
  • What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life -- Srully Blotnick
  • Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life. -- Gretel Ehrlich
  • The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life. -- Os Guinness
  • The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result. -- Francis Schaeffer
  • Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice. -- Kathy Baker
  • 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
  • Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
  • There are some things in life that just are. They are meant to be, and to fight against them is to ensure your own loss. -- Theresa Smith
  • The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one. -- Maria von Trapp
  • Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss. -- Rebecca Solnit
  • Success in life comes to those who simply refuse to give up; individuals with vision so strong that obstacles, failure and loss only act as teachings -- Silken Laumann
  • We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action. -- Mike Pence
  • If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads. -- Amiri Baraka
  • we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility. -- Margaret Deland
  • President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy. -- Robert McFarlane
  • City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur -- Gavin Newsom
  • Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours. -- Marilyn Manson
  • I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about... -- Cornelia Parker
  • People had written about that, warfare based on attrition of wealth rather than loss of life. But it's always been easier to make new lives than new wealth. -- Joe Haldeman
  • I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. -- Charles Francis Richter
  • Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without. -- Anne Lamott
  • No lifetime is a loss if you've leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if you have learned. -- Frederick Lenz
  • 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
  • Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out. -- Hailey Edwards
  • We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies. -- Judith Viorst
  • I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam. -- Robert McNamara
  • A great mix of tips, tricks, and anecdotes, All is Forgiven, Move On has excellent ideas for your weight loss journey and for improving your life along the way! -- Judith S. Beck
  • A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else. -- Abigail Disney
  • My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America. -- Jim Ramstad
  • The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss. -- Peggy Orenstein
  • I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall. -- Isaac Deutscher
  • Ten Years Later' is about the journey six extraordinary people take with time. Each has experienced a game-changing event - perhaps a life-threatening illness or a catastrophic personal loss. -- Hoda Kotb
  • 'Ten Years Later' is about the journey six extraordinary people take with time. Each has experienced a game-changing event - perhaps a life-threatening illness or a catastrophic personal loss. -- Hoda Kotb
  • I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life. -- Martin Short
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