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Loss Quotes

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction – there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

– Marco Tempest

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere – perhaps irreversibly – through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

– Martin Rees

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

– Phil McGraw

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

– Niccolo Machiavelli

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

– Marion Ross

I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn’t hold on to anything.

– Michelle Williams

I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my ‘cheater’s book,’ my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan was to write a book about how people deal with love and loss.

– Junot Diaz

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.

– Julie Bishop

The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us – viewer and maker – in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.

– Kara Walker

Everything we’ve been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.

– Jorge Cruise

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

– May Sarton

There’s going to be different kinds of challenges on a yearly basis. You’re going to have to overcome injuries, or you overcome a playoff loss or what have you. So there’s always challenges in this business.

– Jeff Fisher

There’s always failure. And there’s always disappointment. And there’s always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

– Michael J. Fox

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.

– Kevin Rudd

There’s a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

– Lucy Powell

I mean, whose songs don’t focus on tragedy and loss?

– Lucinda Williams

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

– Morgan Freeman

Not having time or energy for weight loss makes no sense. Does it take more time or energy to eat fish than prime rib? No.

– Martha Beck

Many liberals argue that big U.S. companies don’t really pay the top corporate rate. While this is sometimes true, it’s mainly because, during recessions, companies lose money, and get a tax loss carryforward that temporarily reduces their effective rate. But during economic expansions, when profits rise, companies then do pay the top rate.

– Lawrence Kudlow

I’ve been fascinated with the subject of loss for a long time. In particular, I’m interested in how people, consciously or unconsciously, spend their lives replacing the things they lost when they were children.

– Jill Davis

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

– Marcus Aurelius

If people can’t acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that’s their loss.

– Jay Griffiths

The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn’t know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

There is a certain sense of loss when a series ends.

– Jodie Sweetin

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.

– John Desmond Bernal

When my husband Charles passed away in 2000, I took over as chair of our family’s foundation. As I was mourning his loss, I also had to keep the foundation moving forward and to chart a course into what was then a very male-dominated philanthropic world.

– Lynn Schusterman

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

– Karl Kraus

The pain of retirement means loss.

– John Murray

My view… would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.

– John Grierson

‘Somnia’ is a story about loss and, I guess, what you’re willing to do to have closure and try and feel whole again. It’s a story of redemption in a sense. I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s a heartbreaking story that’s incredibly terrifying.

– Katee Sackhoff

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