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.

The best loss quotes

1. Today, jada & i mourn with all of you the loss of a beautiful poet, a true inspiration, and one of the most magnificent artists to ever grace this earth, prince. — Will Smith

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

3. 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

4. There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. — Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir

5. I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss. — Maya Angelou

6. The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues. — Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

7. Greed has two teachers — one is a cheat [a crafty person] and the other one is financial loss. When one incurs loss

8. Religious devotion is for the individual. Character is for all. There is no loss if there is no devotion. Everything is lost if there is no character. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

9. Transform the Material.(Chuang Tzu) — Sung Yee Poon, FREE EASY MIND in Conflicts. Stress.Loss

10. It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films. — Vin Diesel

11. Ingenuity and creativity, even for a defeating case of two steps forward and one backward, applied strategically can covert a loss into gain. — Priyavrat Thareja

12. Success and failure will all come to pass like waves, only Nature remains — Sung Yee Poon, MILLENNIUM CHARM Three Novellas. Conflicts.Dislocation. Loss

13. Despite the loss they were suffering, they’d both relaxed–as people do when they realize they’ve run out of chances for happiness — Orhan Pamuk, Snow

14. There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. — Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir

15. Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him? — Nalini Singh, Angels’ Blood

16. Life is a series of deaths and resurrections, losses and gains, pain and joy. — Torry Martin, Of Moose and Men: Lost and Found in Alaska

17. Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven’s the greatest pain in Hell. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

18. History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful. — Noam Chomsky

19. There are times when our victories have a cost that we did not foresee, when winning brings us loss. — Susanna Kearsley, The Firebird

20. 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

21. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. — Norman Cousins

22. If you can shrug off a loss, you can’t be a winner. — Vince Lombardi

23. We fear what we long for. This is the paradox. — Tony Brasunas, Double Happiness: One Man’s Tale of Love, Loss, and Wonder on the Long Roads of China

24. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill

25. Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours — you would have friends less one.

26. No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider — PureDragonWolf

27. The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. — Otsuichi, ZOO〈２〉

28. This verdict shouldn’t be seen as a win or loss for anybody, may peace and harmony prevail! — Narendra Modi

29. Sometimes the right thing to do will cost us our greatest sacrifices, but the rewards will always outweigh our losses — Robin M. Bertram

30. Manage your relationships. Great relationships may not be profitable, but bad ones always result in losses. — Tarun Sharma

31. We are more sensitive to losses than to gains — the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.

32. Every mortal loss is an immortal gain. — William Blake

33. Respect is a mutual interest, your gains depend on your losses. — M.F. Moonzajer

34. Today, jada & i mourn with all of you the loss of a beautiful poet, a true inspiration, and one of the most magnificent artists to ever grace this earth, prince. — Will Smith

35. If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn’t have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too. — Pauline Kael

36. Every mortal loss is an immortal gain. — William Blake

37. It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity. — Salman Rushdie

38. Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother. — Rasmenia Massoud, Broken Abroad

39. Joy is something we can’t manufacture. Joy happens to us not because of us. — Todd Stocker, Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter

40. 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

41. No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider — PureDragonWolf

42. To try and fail is at least to learn — to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

43. There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. — Plautus

44. And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

45. We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy. — William Osler

46. The superb use the mind as mirror, not welcoming nor rejecting, reflect without hiding, and triumph without harming. (Chuang Tzu) — Sung Yee Poon, FREE EASY MIND in Conflicts. Stress.Loss

47. A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. — Niccolo Machiavelli

48. She said that that was the disadvantage of bringing creatures into the house: one grew used to them, and then, one had the upset of their loss. — Sarah Waters, Affinity

49. A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse. — Michael Jordan

50. I’m learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn’t know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat. — Mick Cornett

Conclusion

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.