4,061 Quotes About Loss

Churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external and our losses wholly internal; and since it is the quality of our religion that is affected by internal conditions, it may be that our supposed gains are but losses spread over a wider field.

Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

The loss just motivates us, basically. Sparks is going to have to pay the price.

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.

Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

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.

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.