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Loss Quotes

I’ve lost a couple children, I’ve lost a wife and it is incredibly difficult to go through and it’s harder to go through when you haven’t had an opportunity to be with the person while they’re dying.

– Joe Biden

On difficulty that comes with not being able to be with loved ones dying from coronavirus.

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.

– Gilbert White

The death of an Italian tailor might not be calamitous in Catania or Cagliari, but the loss to Soho is immeasurable. We don’t have Italian tailors we can spare here.

– Howard Jacobson

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people’s conscience.

– Hjalmar Schacht

You’re always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me.

– Hope Solo

‘Ten Years Later’ is about the journey six extraordinary people take with time. Each has experienced a game-changing event – perhaps a life-threatening illness or a catastrophic personal loss.

– Hoda Kotb

When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable – sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?

– Guillermo Diaz

Frank Schirrmacher’s passing is a great loss. Among the intellectuals, he, along with Friedrich Kittler, was the only one who understood the philosophical dimensions of the Internet.

– Hubert Burda

It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions.

– Hussein of Jordan

I’m at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show – so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know.

– Harry Shearer

Tragedy, loss, and hurt often arrive unanticipated. How we react when we are surprised will tell our families whether what we have taught and testified lies deep in our hearts.

– Henry B. Eyring

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

– Georg Solti

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It’s probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

– George Kennedy

Homeland is something one becomes aware of only through its loss.

– Gunter Grass

Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding.

– Helen Clark

I have a problem with players who don’t take the loss personally. At a professional level you should – it’s our job, it’s our livelihood, it’s who we are at this level. Every loss should be taken that personal.

– Hope Solo

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one’s property and therefore no one’s loss.

– George Reisman

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

– Greg Walden

According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

– Harbhajan Singh

It is like visiting one’s funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

– Harold Brodkey

I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.

– Joe Torre

To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you’ve moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.

– Jacqueline Woodson

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don’t want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

– James Hillman

High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from bone and therefore decreased bone density.

– Joel Fuhrman

There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don’t have a full picture.

– Irving Kirsch

There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.

– Jill Scott

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don’t have a Seder or I don’t light the menorah, I feel a loss.

– Jason Robert Brown

I’m prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar!

– Jennifer Hudson

Several years ago, I began losing my hair, and like a lot of men, it was a major concern to me, in fact it was practically an obsession. But, also I’m an actor, so I’m in the public eye a lot and I really felt that my hair loss could affect my career prospects.

– James Nesbitt

Translation is not original creation – that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.

– Joseph Brodsky

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