Top 100 Loss Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there’s nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.”

— Benjamin Graham

52. “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

— John Donne

53. “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

54. “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

55. “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

56. “Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.”

— Miguel Ruiz

57. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

— Rumi

58. “I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”

— Franz Kafka

59. “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”

— William Shakespeare

60. “Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.”

— Keren Ann

61. “Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.”

— Corrie ten Boom

62. “A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong – not taking the loss – that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

63. “Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

64. “There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”

— Neil Gaiman

65. “The heart will break, but broken live on.”

— Lord Byron

66. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

— Thomas Campbell

67. “I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”

— Serena Williams

68. “How people die remains in the memory of those who live on.”

— Cicely Saunders

69. “All things must pass, all things must pass away.”

— George Harrison

70. “They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.”

— Laurence Binyon

71. “How many deaths will it take ’till we know that too many people have died?”

— Bob Dylan

72. “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”

— J.K. Rowling

73. “I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

74. “Ain’t a woman alive that could take my mama’s place.”

— Tupac Shakur

75. “I’m always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don’t focus on making money, focus on protecting what you have.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

76. “It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly upon your mind.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

77. “I can't set my hopes too high, because every hello ends with a goodbye.”

— Demi Lovato

78. “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.”

— Joni Mitchell

79. “Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?”

— Sam Harris

80. “Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

81. “I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”

— Haruki Murakami

82. “I love my brother. I miss my brother.”

— Randy Quaid

83. “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”

— L.M. Montgomery

84. “Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

85. “You learn more from your losses than from your gains.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

86. “To die, to sleep – To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...”

— William Shakespeare

87. “As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

— Cassandra Clare

88. “The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

89. “If I never see you again, I will always carry you, inside, outside, on my fingertips, and at brain edges, and in centers, centers of what I am, of what remains.”

— Charles Bukowski

90. “Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both.”

— Alexander Elder

91. “Trying to trade during a losing streak is emotionally devastating. Trying to play ‘catch up’ is lethal.”

— Ed Seykota

92. “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”

— Stephen Chbosky

93. “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before – more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”

— Charles Dickens

94. “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

95. “If you can’t win, make sure you don’t lose.”

— Johan Cruijff

96. “If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it’s the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.”

— Paulo Coelho

97. “We lost because we didn’t win.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

98. “Even if you don’t win you learn. So there’s no losing. You win the fight or you learn.”

— Renzo Gracie

99. “You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.”

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

100. “Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.”

— Franz Kafka