Top Loss Quotes

The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.

I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother's death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her back. All that bli...

Loss Definition

(v. t.) The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.

(v. t.) The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing.

(v. t.) That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable.

(v. t.) The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel.

(v. t.) Failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle.

(v. t.) Failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time.

(v. t.) Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property.

(v. t.) Destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person; also, the sum paid or payable therefor; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars.

The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and s...

When you left you left behind a fieldof silent flowers under a sky full of unstirred clouds...you left a million butterfliesmid-silky flutters You left like midnight rain against my dreaming ears Oh a...

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone. I did not pray for h...

Sadness clings to you like a cat unwilling to release its claws, so you embrace it and stroke it until it is content to sleep in your heart, until awakened by a sound, a smell, or a memory...but it ne...

Loss is like a wind, it either carries you to a new destination or it traps you in an ocean of stagnation. You must quickly learn how to navigate the sail, for stagnation is death.

We were just two broken souls trying to fix one another...Somehow I ended up with a piece of you and you me

If we can prevent just one marriage from disintegrating--or just one child from suffering the loss of a family--our effort will be justified.

We declared war on one another's heart. And once the bombs dropped, & wars of words began, all that was left were the ruins of what was once everything. Something once so beautiful, that even those du...

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

You will never win an unfair competition since the reward is meaningless.

[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be bro...

I work so hard for profits because my dreams are expensive.

Have you ever been totally happy or at peace and then begun to worry for no apparent reason? We live in a constant battle of conflict and comparison. If you stop asserting the need to label or to judg...

Our CrossOur little circle hides in the mind,It's difficult to miss but hard to find,It goes unspoken but yet it speaks,From backward years to forward weeks,We can't forget but why even try,Two of a k...

Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to se...

One of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

I feel sorry for people who maintain relationships and friendships detrimental to their mental health. Everyone is guilty of it at one time or another- but the idea is to strive to be your best; right...