Welcome to Lose Quotes, a curated collection of quotes that explore the theme of loss in its various forms. Loss is a universal experience that touches every aspect of human existence, from the profound grief of losing a loved one to the more subtle losses we encounter throughout our lives. Whether it’s the loss of a relationship, a dream, or a sense of identity, the emotions that accompany loss are complex and deeply felt.
In this collection, you will find words of wisdom, solace, and reflection from a diverse array of voices authors, poets, philosophers, and thinkers who have grappled with the complexities of loss and emerged with insights to share. These quotes offer comfort to those in mourning, validation to those navigating their own losses, and a reminder that even in our darkest moments, there is wisdom to be found. Join us on a journey through the depths of loss, where words have the power to heal, inspire, and illuminate the human experience. Below, you will find a selection of quotes on this topic, ripe for reflection, sharing, and personal interpretation.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. Karl Marx
Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success. Rick Pitino
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have. Viggo Mortensen
If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything. Ellen G. White
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it. George Bernard Shaw
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you. Muhammad Ali
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller
Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don’t lose the passion and the love for what you do. Nadia Comaneci
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara De Angelis
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. John Singer Sargent
I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent. Sue Wicks
It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose. David Merrick
You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose. Lou Holtz
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you. Ernest Hemingway
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. Henry Kissinger
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi
The only way I can lose is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy. Edwin Edwards
Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose. Ayrton Senna
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly. Bernard Law Montgomery
When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live. Stuart Scott
Beauty doesn’t matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart. Ann Curry
It’s never easy to lose. But life is not all sunshine and roses. AB de Villiers
If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose. Charles Bukowski
You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win. Ho Chi Minh
Many big and small things happen in our lives, almost on daily basis, and I hope that everyone would not lose the trust that they have in themselves, and never lose positive attitude. Gong Hyo-jin
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. Paul Brown
The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done… you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do. Lil Wayne
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. Chuck Norris
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale
Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever. James Altucher
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. Shania Twain
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. Saint Francis de Sales
You can be an absolute woman and also be smart and tough and not lose your femininity. Priyanka Chopra
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart. Mencius
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election. Imelda Marcos
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s okay to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless. Magnus Carlsen
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. Florence Nightingale
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. Edmund Burke
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Steve Jobs
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell
No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have. Dong Dong
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. Jean-Paul Sartre
You win some, lose some, and wreck some. Dale Earnhardt
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. Benjamin Franklin
We win together as a team, and we lose together as a team. Kenny Smith
Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, sometimes you are unlucky, but that’s life. Jerome Boateng
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. William Shakespeare
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
I decided that if I was going to continue in track, that I didn’t want to lose, that I wasn’t going to lose. Steve Prefontaine
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. Bill Gates
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. Fyodor Dostoevsky
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. Charles Evans Hughes
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? Erich Fromm
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements. Mao Zedong
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve. Francis of Assisi
Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose! Robert Burns
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing. Van Morrison
I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose. Paul Ryan
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. Alfred Lord Tennyson
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. William Makepeace Thackeray
The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort. Michael Jordan
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. Bob Marley
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. Carter G. Woodson
It’s okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that’s what makes life interesting. Elizabeth Banks
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. B. R. Ambedkar
In life, it is important to not be afraid to put yourself out there, win or lose. It is all about the spirit of challenging yourself to be open to realizing your highest potential. Cynthia Bailey
You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you. J. Cole
A true champion is a true champion. They go fight and win or lose, give it their all. Glover Teixeira
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. James Baldwin
One thing I will ensure is that whether we win or lose, the fighting spirit should always be there. Anil Kumble
Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope. John Lewis
Win or lose, I believe in giving my best and that is what I always do. Lin Dan
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. Norman Vincent Peale
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? Marie Antoinette
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game. Winston Churchill
What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is. Dan Quayle
It’s never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on. Francois Hougaard
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. Woodrow Wilson
Above anything else, I hate to lose. Jackie Robinson
You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it. Robin Williams
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliot
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. Madeleine L’Engle
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It’s the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they’re gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it’s my turn to leave. Tupac Shakur
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. Lyndon B. Johnson
We’re gracious and we’re humble, and we play the game a certain way, whether we win or lose. Megan Rapinoe
You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter. Conor McGregor
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. Maya Angelou
Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future. Dalai Lama
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. Richard Whately
When my marriage broke up… I had just put on 45 pounds for my ‘Shall We Dance?’ character. I had to eat 10,000 calories a day just to put on weight while training with Tony Dovolani. I basically stayed in bed for a six-month rotation of depression naps. Dance helped me lose the weight. Lisa Ann Walter
Playing rugby made my dad proud. Being in the theater made my mom proud. So if I could play to both sides of how I was raised, then how could I lose? And that sounds like a hindsight thing, but I knew it at the time. Jacob Elordi
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. Ronald Reagan
It’s about you. If you win, it’s you; if you lose, it’s you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide. Greg Rusedski
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal
