Great Loss Quotes

It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.

Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over will always stand between us and life. When we don’t grieve, a part of us becomes caught in the past like Lot’s wife who, because she looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.

The loss of letters in today’s world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan’t know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we’ll wish we had those letters never written.

Every minute that we lose will cost us great losses later that we will not be able to afford.

My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that’s true. In my father’s family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother’s side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can’t forget that.

When great loss happens – deaths close to you or your own approaching death – this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.

Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

[John] Hughes is a great loss, I think. He was the first filmmaker that could look at someone who was young without seeing them as being less.

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it.

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.

One of my favorite albums of all time is Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. Every song is superbly written, performed, and produced. He is a great loss to the music world. There will never be another one like him.

The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage.

The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia… I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I must say, I wished he had been.

I like Iron Maiden and a few other bands, but by and large I don’t like metal music. Most of it simply put reeks. This meant that it was no great loss for me to drop the metal music altogether.

In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ?replaced? by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

Michael Jackson is the reason why I do music and why I am an entertainer. I am devastated by this great loss, and I will continue to be humbled and inspired by his legacy. My prayers are with his family. Michael will be deeply missed, but never forgotten. He’s the greatest, the best ever. No one will ever be better.

but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one’s dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all.

It’s a great loss.[Carrie Fisher] was a comic genius, as far as I’m concerned.

Most medical personnel remain largely unfamiliar with non-medical treatments, and tend to dismiss them without knowing about what they’re dismissing. This is a great loss to the doctor as well as to the public.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

If you’ve been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that – it feels like a great loss.

He was a terrific guy. It is a great loss to the sports world. Wilt Chamberlain had a special place in basketball history and he will be missed. We had many battles with Wilt. He was a fun guy to be around; he was a ‘Gentle Giant.’

The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss.

Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don’t let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours.