Literature - Quotes

[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. - Julian Barnes

A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people, entice them into a world of beauty and horror, light and shadow, of passion, of romance, of mystery. That's the magic of it. Beyond that, of course, you can open a dialogue about the ideas which interest you, but first of all you absolutely must get inside people's minds. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

All literature is but a word – a thought – a maxim amplified. - Edward Counsel

An interchange of literature is the conversation of nations. - Edward Counsel

Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives. - Neil Gaiman

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment. - Matthew Arnold

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel. - Salman Rushdie

It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. - Gao Xingjian

Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch. - Sir Walter Scott

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. - Jules Renard

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. - John Steinbeck

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them. - George Henry Lewes

Literature is like a subtle concoction of laboriously collected peripherals called words, intellect, thoughts, imagination, creativity and aestheticism brewed together to form a resplendent work of art. - Shilpa Sandesh

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. - Octavio Paz

Literature is the expression of the thoughts of society. Books are specimens of the conversations of an age, preserved in the spirit of taste and of genius. - Professor Huxley

Literature is the garden of wisdom. - James Ellis

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. - Fernando Pessoa

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way. - Salman Rushdie

Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptions of its great minds; they are organs of the time; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts; but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society inspires. - Edward Everett

Literature: The art of putting old words into new places. - Edward Blanchard

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do – it can make us identify with situations and people far away. If it does that, it's a miracle. - Chinua Achebe

Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house. - Austin O’Malley

People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself. - Doris Lessing

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. - Jerome K. Jerome

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean. - Robert Louis Stevenson

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. - Jorge Luis Borges

There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats. - Isaac Disraeli

We read literature for a number of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our own life stories and – especially important – to find ourselves by understanding our own life stories more clearly in the context of others. - Maureen Corrigan

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. - Maya Angelou

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. - Cyril Connolly

Music - Quotes

A song playing comprises a very specific and vivid set of memory cues. Because the multiple-trace memory models assume that context is encoded along with memory traces, the music that you have listened to at various times of your life is cross-coded with the events of those times. That is, the music is linked to events of the time, and those events are linked to the music. - Daniel J. Levitin

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. - Jean Cocteau

All music jars when the soul's out of tune. - Miguel de Cervantes

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Do you know that our soul is composed of harmony? - Leonardo DaVinci

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out. - Henry Ward Beecher

I saw my music, and indeed all pop music, as simply a form of entertainment, a way to please audiences for an hour or two, in live concert or on an album. What I failed to understand then, but came to learn again and again, is the incredible power that music possesses – the power to heal, to shape destiny, even to change lives. A popular song may be three minutes of not terribly profound poetry, but the right combination of words and music can touch people at their very core. - Anne Murray

I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music. - Billy Joel

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning. - Plato

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau

If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land. - Mencius

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. - Benjamin Britten

It is one thing to get all the notes right; any number of unsocialized conservatory prodigies can do that. It is another thing to play the thoughts within the notes, the light around them, the darkness behind them, the silence at the end of the phrase. That is what inspires awe. - Alex Ross

Kind words are the music of the world. - Unknown

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. - Mary Kay Ash

Music can change the world because it can change people. - Bono

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening. - Aretha Franklin

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same. - John Denver

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. - Victor Hugo

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. - Plato

Music has charms to soothe a savage beast. - William Congreve

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. Lao Tzu

Music is a fantastic peace-keeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion. - Xun Zi

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato

Music is a science that teaches how sound, under certain measures of time and tune, may be produced, and so ordered and disposed, as, either in consonance, or succession, or both, they may raise various sensations from the height of rapture even to melancholy or distraction. - Wellins Calcott

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. - Jean Paul Richter

Music is organized sound, but the organization has to involve some element of the unexpected or it is emotionally flat and robotic. The appreciation we have for music is intimately related to our ability to learn the underlying structure of music we like – the equivalent to grammar in spoken or signed languages – and to be able to make predictions about what will come next. Composers imbue music with emotion by knowing what our expectations are and then very deliberately controlling when those expectations will be met, and when they won't. The thrills, chills, and tears we experience from music are the result of having our expectations artfully manipulated by a skilled composer and the musicians who interpret that music. - Daniel J. Levitin

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. - Claude Debussy

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. - Pablo Casals

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran

Music is the link between earth and heaven. - Lewis F. Korns

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Music lends grace and dignity to life; it softens care, alleviates regrets, refines and enlivens sensibility, links the ideal to the actual, and suggests a flow of life in unison with its harmonies. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose. - Herbert Spencer

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

Music recalls a state of feeling, and not merely a series of incidents. When we listen to the long-forgotten melody, we do not review the scenes and actions of our childhood in succession, but we become for the moment children once again. - Arthur Helps

Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it a rest. - Unknown

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t. - Johnny Depp

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Berthold Auerbach

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. - G. K. Chesterton

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato

Music, once admitted to the soul becomes ... a sort of spirit, and never dies. It wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory. - Edward Bulwer Lytton

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness. - Edgar Allan Poe

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul. - Plato

Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others! - E. H. Chapin

Psychologists have found that music does things to you whether you like it or not. Fast tempos invariably raise your pulse, respiration, and blood pressure; slow music lowers them. - Doron K. Antrim

The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words. - Jose Saramago

The emotional impact of music is so incommensurate with what people can say about it, and that seems to be very illustrative of something fundamental – that very powerful emotional effects often can’t be articulated. You know something’s happened to you but you don’t know what it is. - Adam Phillips

The field open to the musician is not a miserable stave of seven notes, but an immeasurable keyboard (still almost entirely unknown) on which, here and there only, separated by the thick darkness of its unexplored tracts, some few among the millions of keys of tenderness, of passion, of courage, of serenity, which compose it, each one differing from all the rest as one universe differs from another, have been discovered by a few great artists who do us the service, when they awaken in us the emotion corresponding to the theme they have discovered, of showing us what richness, what variety lies hidden, unknown to us, in that vast, unfathomed and forbidding night of our soul which we take to be an impenetrable void. - Marcel Proust

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable. - W.H. Auden

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

The purpose of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought. - Unknown

There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. - Minnie Aumonier

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. - George Eliot

There’s music in the sighing of a reed; There’s music in the gushing of a rill; There’s music in all things, if we have ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres. - Lord Byron

We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love and music seems to be the common denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul. - Willie Nelson

We are working in a field of mystical resonance, sound and vibration … that’s what makes people cry, laugh and feel their hair stand up. - Carlos Santana

What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever. - Ken Livingstone

When the music changes, so does the dance. - West African Proverb

Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life. - Daniel J Levitin

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

With the right music, you either forget everything or you remember everything. - Unknown

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Words must ever sound so feeble in attempting to express the magic power of melody. - Arthur Helps

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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. - Marcus Aurelius

Talent grows in peace, character in the current of affairs. - Johann Wolfgang von Geothe

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them. - Aristotle

We don’t have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here. - Susan Taylor

Keep your eyes on the stars, keep your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt

If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable. - Lyndon Baines Johnson 

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. -William James

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Idleness is sweet, but its consequences are cruel. - John Quincy Adams

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. - Robert Heinlein

Little Things - Quotes

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. - Robert Brault

Even though you may be able to see the big things with one eye closed, to see the little things, keep both eyes open. Little things often make the difference between success and failure. - Unknown

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. - Frank A. Clark

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. - Arthur Conan Doyle

It is not a single, great, heroic deed that defines who you really are. It is the little things you do day by day that count. - Unknown

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. - Georges Bernanos

Never get tired of doing little things for others. Sometime those little things occupy the biggest part of their hearts. - Unknown

Logic - Quotes

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. - Rabindranath Tagore Contrariwise ... if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. - Lewis Carroll

Fear is the enemy of logic. - Frank Sinatra

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method. - Neil DeGrasse Tyson

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart. - Joel Coen

Logic cripples and constrains; it forces one into narrow and mechanical modes of thought that cut one off from a vast range of superior thoughts, feelings and perceptions. - John M. Dolan

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature. - I. Watts

Logic helps you learn how to be precise and rigorous in any area of study. - Greg Restall

Logic is essentially a tool for getting at truth; it is the tool, for without it no reasoning is possible in any field of human enquiry whatsoever. - David S. Oderberg

Logic is the anatomy of thought. - John Locke
Logic is the art of thinking well; the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way. - Isaac Taylor

Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible. - Morris F. Cohen

No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it. - Bernard J. F. Lonergan

So, though most of us can reason without a formal training in logic, study of logic is needed at least to learn how to discern correct reasoning from incorrect reasoning. - Chhanda Chakraborti

Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things. - Confucius

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. - Thomas Babington MacAulay

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality. - Alexander

There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly. - Alfred Tarski

There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of the observer. - Toba Beta

Nonsense - Quotes

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. - Roald Dahl

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. - Rex Stout

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. - Horace Walpole

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. - Robert Frost

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense. - Philip Dick

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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. - Anne Lindbergh

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. - Charles Colton 

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. - Josh Billings

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. - Francis Bacon

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. - Richard Nixon

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only fools and dead men don’t change their minds. Fools won’t. Dead men can’t. - John H. Patterson

Loss / Losing - Quotes

A little loss frightens, a great one tames. - Spanish Proverb

A loss you know not is no loss. - John de Barros

A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses – vanishing away of things – are among the teachings of this world of shadows. - Orville Dewey

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself. - Michel de Montaigne

All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers. - William S. Burroughs

Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat. - Arthur Ashe

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. - George Eliot

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever ... finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them. - Paul Coelho

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it; if thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy; if sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride. Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great; he loses little or nothing, that reserves himself. - Francis Quarles

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. - Rumi

Even loss can be a profit. - Persian Proverb

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

Except in a very few matches, usually with world-class performers, there is a point in every match (and in some cases it's right at the beginning) when the loser decides he's going to lose. And after that, everything he does will be aimed at providing an explanation of why he will have lost. He may throw himself at the ball (so he will be able to say he's done his best against a superior opponent). He may dispute calls (so he will be able to say he's been robbed). He may swear at himself and throw his racket (so he can say it was apparent all along he wasn't in top form). His energies go not into winning but into producing an explanation, an excuse, a justification for losing. - C. Terry Warner

For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan. - Buzz Aldrin

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language. - Mark Slouka

He who does not gain loses. - French Proverb

He who has lost his oxen is always hearing bells. - Spanish Proverb

He who recovers but the tail of his cow does not lose all. - French Proverb

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone – you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence. - Alyson Noel

I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. - Muhammad Ali

I would prefer even to lose with honour than to win by cheating. - Sophocles

I would rather lose in a cause that will someday win, than win in a cause that will someday lose! - Woodrow Wilson

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term. - David Mitchell

If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won't just dissipate and disappear. Rather, it will fester, and we will experience its sorrow later, in stranger forms. - Elizabeth Lesser

If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it. - Lemony Snicket

If you learn from a loss you have not lost. - Austin O’Malley

It is better to lose than lose more. - Spanish Proverb

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss. - Mark Twain

It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything. - Chuck Palahniuk

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. - Elizabeth Bishop

Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyse your failure, or just complain about bad luck? If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are. - Lance Armstrong

Losing is only temporary and not all encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it. - John Wooden

Losing would be painful, but not as painful as knowing there was something else you could've done. - Joe Trippi

Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin. - Brian Ruckley

Loss and possession, death and life are one, there falls no shadow where there shines no sun. - Hilaire Belloc

Loss follows you home and taunts you at the breakfast table, follows you to work in the morning. You have to make accommodations and broker deals to soften the rabbit punches that loss brings to your daily life. You have to take the word "loser" and add it to your resume and walk around with it on your name tag as it hand-feeds you your own shit in dosages too large for even great beasts to swallow. - Pat Conroy

Loss is the hardest thing ... but it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore. - Dean Koontz

Many things are lost for want of asking. - English Proverb

No man can lose what he never had. - Izaak Walton

Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second. - Bobby Unser

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size. - Mark Twain

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it. - William Hazlitt

One man's loss is another man's gain. - English Proverb

Only loss teaches us about the value of things. - Arthur Schopenhauer

So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us – that's snatched right out of our hands – even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness. - Haruki Murakami

Sometimes, there was no getting over it. Sometimes, you lived with the empty place inside of you until you imploded on it, loss as singularity, or until the empty place expanded and hollowed out the rest of you so thoroughly you became the walking dead, a ghost in your own life. - Caitlin Kittredge

Sometimes, you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. - Sarah Dessen

Sometimes, you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss. - Cassandra Clare

That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence. - Seneca

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. - Richard Bach

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. - Elizabeth Bishop

The fear of losing is the flip side of the need to win. Because evolution doesn't favour losers, the fear of losing is so programmed into our DNA that we do all sorts of things, both rational and irrational, to avoid losing. We don't let people cut into line, we compete in meaningless games and sports as if our lives were at stake, and we will never buy from or agree with someone who makes us feel as if he's about to win and we're about to lose. - Gene Bedell

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all. - Publilius Syrus

The victor shall soon be the vanquished, if he relax his exertion; and ... the vanquished this year, may be the victor in the next, in spite of all competition. - Abraham Lincoln

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking. - James Patterson

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset

'Tis better to have loved and loss than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Tennyson

We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. - Cassandra Clare

We gain and lose by the same means. - Roman Proverb

We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety – and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal. - Judith Viorst

We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one. - Dean Koontz

We never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. - Gail Cladwell

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. - Suzanne Collins

What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win. - David Roochnik

Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss them grow longer. Then, when you do remember to miss them again, it's still with a stabbing pain to the heart. And you have guilt. Guilt because it's been too long since you missed them last. - Kristin O’Donnell

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. - Dianne Feinstein

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. - William Shakespeare

You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity. - Bill Clinton

You know what makes a good loser? Practice. - Ernest Hemingway

You’re never a loser until you quit trying. - Mike Ditka

Some Jokes

A Prayer

Dear Lord,

I pray for Wisdom to understand my man; Love to forgive him; And Patience for his moods. Because, Lord, if I pray for Strength, I'll beat him to death.

 AMEN

No Sympathy

A beggar walked up to a well dressed woman shopping on Fifth Avenue and said, “I haven’t eaten anything in four days.’’

She looked at him and said, “God, I wish I had your willpower.’’

      

Hearing Aid

A man was telling his neighbour, “I just bought a new hearing aid. It cost me four thousand dollars, but its state of the art. It’s perfect.’’

“Really,’’ answered the neighbour. “What kind is it?’’

“Twelve thirty.”