| 36 Loss Quotes
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“Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.”
Bonnie Tyler Quotes |
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“Now those memories come back to haunt meThey haunt me like a curse”
Bruce Springsteen Quotes |
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“In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil ~~Must be draggin' you along”
Melissa Etheridge Quotes |
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“Every day I work so hardBringin' home my hard earned payTry to love you baby, but you push me away.”
Led Zeppelin Quotes |
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“What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.”
Rob Thomas Quotes |
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“Losers must have leave to speak.”
Colley Cibber Quotes Source: The Rival Fools (act I, l. 17)
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“Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Conversation (l. 357), referring to story told by Pancirollus of lamp burned in the tomb of Tullia
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“For 'tis a truth well known to most,
That whatsoever thing is lost,
We seek it, ere it comes to light,
In every cranny but the right.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: The Retired Cat (l. 95)
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“Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts.
It's what you do with what you have left.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: The Retired Cat (l. 95)
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“What's saved affords
No indication of what's lost.”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes Source: The Scroll
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“A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father,
while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.
[Lat., Gli huomini dimenticano piu teste la morte del padre, che
la perdita del patrimonie.]”
Niccolo Machiavelli (Macchiavelli) Quotes Source: Del. Prin. (ch. XVII)
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“Things that are not at all, are never lost.”
Christopher Marlowe Quotes Source: Hero and Leander--First Sestiad (l. 276)
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“A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes Source: Essays--Of Solitude
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“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;
When health is lost, something is lost;
When character is lost, all is lost!”
Motto Quotes Source: over the walls of a school in Germany
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“That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all.”
Sir W.F.P. Napier Quotes Source: Montrose and the Covenanters--Montrose's Poems (no. 1, vol. II, p. 566), version of part of work by
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“What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a
friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him
further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your
loan or lose your friend.
[Lat., Si quis mutuum quid dederit, sit pro proprio perditum;
Cum repetas, inimicum amicum beneficio invenis tuo.
Si mage exigere cupias, duarum rerum exoritur optio;
Vel illud, quod credideris perdas, vel illum amicum, amiseris.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes Source: Trinummus (IV, 3, 43)
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“Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou are gone, and for ever!”
Sir Walter Scott Quotes Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto III, st. 16)
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“We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that
sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
[Lat., Periere mores, jus, decus, pietas, fides,
Et qui redire nescit, cum perit, pudor.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: Agamemnon (CXII)
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“Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss
But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Queen Margaret at V, iv)
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“The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes Source: Maxims
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“Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes Source: Maxims
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“But over all things brooding slept
The quiet sense of something lost.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes Source: In Memoriam (pt. LXXVIII, st. 2)
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“That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more:
Too common! Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes Source: On Memoriam (pt. VI, st. 2)
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“No man can lose what he never had.”
Izaak Walton Quotes Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. V)
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“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.”
Samuel Butler Quotes |
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