Top 100 Loss Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

— Mitch Albom

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Sympathy Quotes, Healing Grief Quotes

2. “Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Sad Quotes

3. “That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

— William Wordsworth

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life, Healing Grief Quotes

4. “Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”

— Mitch Albom

Also featured in: Moving Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Book Quotes About Love, Broken Heart Quotes

5. “Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life, Sadness Quotes

6. “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Financial Success Quotes, Quotes About Money

7. “The death of a beloved is an amputation.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Sad Quotes About Life, Missing Someone Quotes, Grief Quotes

8. “The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Wealth Quotes, Financial Success Quotes, Making Money Quotes

9. “Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes, Real Quotes

10. “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Adversity Quotes, Fight Club Quotes

11. “To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Learning Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

12. “Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Beautiful Quotes, Family Quotes, Healing Grief Quotes

13. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”

— Hermann Hesse

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Mind Quotes, Moving On Quotes

14. “It’s not really that much big of a deal – you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success.”

— Conor McGregor

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Challenges Quotes

15. “When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn’t mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.”

— T.D. Jakes

Also featured in: Short Inspiring Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Moving On Quotes

16. “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”

— Billy Graham

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Important Quotes, Character Quotes, Health Quotes

17. “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Motivational Work Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes

18. “Be silent. Only the hand of God can remove the burdens of your heart.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Friday Inspirational Quotes, Quotes About Heart

19. “It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”

— Rose Kennedy

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Sad Quotes, Pain Quotes, Grief Quotes

20. “And all I loved, I loved alone.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Sad Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

21. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Pain Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

22. “All good things must come to an end.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life

23. “I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Also featured in: Giving Up Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Sad Quotes, Depression Quotes

24. “The rest, is silence.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Powerful Quotes, Character Quotes, Silence Quotes

25. “There’s never a right time to say goodbye.”

— Chris Brown

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Heartbreak Quotes, Goodbye Quotes

26. “Grief is the price we pay for love.”

— Queen Elizabeth II

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Family Quotes

27. “When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Learning Quotes, Buddhist Quotes

28. “Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life

29. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

— Norman Cousins

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

30. “End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Deep Quotes

31. “Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”

— J.K. Rowling

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Creative Quotes

32. “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”

— Washington Irving

Also featured in: Quotes About Feelings, Suffering Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Sadness Quotes

33. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Giving Up Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Being Strong Quotes, Artist Quotes

34. “Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Sad Quotes, Soul Quotes

35. “To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”

— Mary Oliver

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

36. “We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ”

— Thomas Fuller

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Short Deep Quotes

37. “When you miss me just look up to the night sky and remember, I'm like a star; sometimes you can't see me, but I'm always there.”

— Jayde Nicole

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Love You Quotes, Thinking About You Quotes, I Miss You Quotes

38. “If you can’t take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses.”

— Ed Seykota

Also featured in: Quotes About Money, Risk-Taking Quotes

39. “You shouldn’t own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Quotes About Money

40. “Money can’t buy life.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

41. “Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

42. “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Deep Quotes

43. “There is no success without failure and losses.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Failure Quotes

44. “The elements of good trading are: 1, cutting losses. 2, cutting losses. And 3, cutting losses. If you can follow these three rules, you may have a chance.”

— Ed Seykota

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Performance Quotes, Making Money Quotes

45. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Soul Quotes, Adversity Quotes, Pain Quotes

46. “The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Past Quotes

47. “You can love someone so much... But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”

— John Green

Also featured in: Real Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Sad Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

48. “Oh captain my captain.”

— Walt Whitman

49. “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also featured in: Quotes About Feelings, Loneliness Quotes, Sadness Quotes

50. “Win or lose, everybody gets what they want out of the market. Some people seem to like to lose, so they win by losing money.”

— Ed Seykota

Also featured in: Stock Market Quotes