Why is the measure of love loss?

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

It is not the loss that makes you a loser, but it is how you respond to it.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

No man can lose what he never had.

We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't, and he's not robbed at all.

On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.

Man, nourished by years and women's bodies, When God despoils you, you kneel, And only the memory of things Sheds a vain warmth on your empty hands.

But there is always this feeling of having lost something ... What is it that you lost? What is it?

Whatever you can lose, reckon of no account.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

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

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

It is the image in the mind that binds us to our lost treasures, but it is the loss that shapes the image.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Natures delight.

An Immortal said: Tn playing chess, there is no infallible way of winning, but there is an infallible way of not losing. He was asked what this infallible way could be, and replied: It is not to play chess.

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.