It’s no secret that starting and running a business is hard. But it’s also rewarding, exhilarating, and satisfying. No matter what stage your business is in, there will be times when you feel loss. These quotes compilation will remind you that you are not alone in those feelings and offer some words of wisdom to help you get through them.

1. There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi–Sikh immigrant woman. — Rupi Kaur

2. We eat for our stomachs, but We hunger with our hearts. — Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

3. That the loss of a man, even if he had been the love of her life, was not the end of a woman’s existence. — Sherry Thomas, A Study in Scarlet Women

4. The Greatest loss in life is the loss of a mother: The second greatest, the loss of Self. — Med Saidi

5. I didn’t lose anyone, for everyone that I lost was never really a loss, unless it was death well then I had to have words with God. — Nikki Rowe

6. It’s what the loss uncovers in you that brings on despair, not the loss itself. — Nicci French, Friday on My Mind

7. The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all. — Ravi Zacharias

8. The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous. — Maya Angelou

9. We’ve owned stocks that We’ve lost money in, if i’m wrong, you sell them out and take a big loss. We’ve done that on a few occasions with stocks and bonds over the years. — Warren Buffett

10. Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss. — Paul Celan

11. Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don’t record is the loss to our wealth in terms of natural resources. — Winnie Byanyima

12. The notion is called wabi–sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss. — Peggy Orenstein

13. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that. — Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

14. The process of grief and loss is as unique as your personal DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) — no two individuals will have the same experiences or relationship to grief.

15. Being a parent is joyful, but it’s also haunted by the specter of loss. — Richard Beck, Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted

16. Niggard prefers mistake rather than loss. — Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

17. Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself. — Robin Williams

18. A breakup is a loss to both parties — not only to he or she who is told that it’s over.

19. I didn’t lose anyone, for everyone that I lost was never really a loss, unless it was death well then I had to have words with God. — Nikki Rowe

20. I know I’ll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I’ll hold, I’ll hold. I know. — Sara Quin

21. This Heart at Peace is My Homeland. (Su Shih) — Sung Yee Poon, MILLENNIUM CHARM Three Novellas. Conflicts.Dislocation. Loss

22. In the journey of life, we pass pleasures & pain. There will be sunshine and rain; there will be loss and gain. But we must learn to smile again and again. — RVM

23. We all take losses and it’s about getting up and coming back. — Mike Epps

24. There are three signs of old age: loss of memory … I forget the other two. — Red Skelton

25. Life is going to give you things that you deserve instead of what you plan or want. Always thank God for your profits and losses. Because God plans best for us. — Syed Mustafa Faraz Ahmad

26. No one has ever made me feel like this, no one. So much regret, so much loss, and so much desire all swirled together in my muddled brain. In my muddled heart. — Melissa Brown, Champagne Toast

27. My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss. — Marvin Sapp

28. The cabin on the lake is nothing compared to my mansion in eternity! — Todd Stocker, Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter

29. [f]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed. — Pericles

30. It’s a new day. Yesterday’s failure is redeemed at the sunrise — Todd Stocker, Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter

31. Emotions get in the way but they don’t pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation. — Ted Koppel

32. Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love. — Sigmund Freud

33. The lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness — despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

34. Loss of worldly riches is better than loss of heavenly treasures. — Matshona Dhliwayo

35. At the end of human — life losses is equal to life gain life earned is equal to life learned and life pain is equal to life lecture. Everything is just one

36. With their mother lying in a coma twenty miles away, they clung together drunkenly and wept for the loss of their father. — Richard Yates, The Easter Parade

37. The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt. — Sigmund Freud

38. Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper. — Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

39. In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand. — Ursula K. Le Guin

40. Learn to be Positive always. In pleasure or Pain, in Sun or Rain, in Loss or Gain, always be POSITIVE! — RVM

41. We all take losses and it’s about getting up and coming back. — Mike Epps

42. A small profit it better than a big loss — Ron Rash, Serena

43. Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

44. We eat for our stomachs, but We hunger with our hearts. — Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

45. If there is a gain and loss in business, feedback control is my business. — Mussadiq Abdul Rahim

46. Silence then, and the scent of apple trees, and the nightmare sense of grief that comes when a man wakes again to feel a loss he has forgotten in sleep. — Mary Stewart

47. It’s like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, ‘I’m terribly sorry. I’m tired.’ [After winning his first Oscar after so many losses] — Paul Newman

48. Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another’s loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven’s despite. — William Blake

49. The loss of…honest and industrious men’s lives cannot be valued at any price. — William Bradford

50. The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred. — Samuel Beckett

We can all agree that loss is never easy, but it can make us stronger and more compassionate. By reflecting on the wise words of others, we can be encouraged to move forward and to never forget the beauty of life. May these quotes about loss help us to see the beauty even in our darkest moments.