“He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.”

— Jack London , book The Sea-Wolf

Wolf Larsen, Chapter Six
The Sea-Wolf (1904)

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American author, journalist, and social activist 1876–1916

Vernon Howard (1918–1992) American writer

1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle

“"There is no God," cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.”

Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) German psychiatrist and philosopher

Man in the Modern Age (1933)

“A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book I, Ch. 38. Of Solitude
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“What became a problem is there was a clause that allowed investors to cover losses. As long as you made losses one year, you could carry them over to the next and to the next. And because of that they would pay no taxes. So this fellow takes all the gold away and he says he makes losses and so he does not pay us anything. So he is the only one that is being protected. Those of us who are losing our resources are not protected. This is the thing that created the kind of debate that we had and we had to renegotiate.”

Jakaya Kikwete (1950) Tanzanian politician and president

On Tanzania's mining sector.
Interviews, Interview with Financial Times, 2007-10-04 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d8a07e28-72a3-11dc-b7ff-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check1/

“It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

“He that in his Studies wholly applies himself to Labour and Exercise, and neglects Meditation, loses his time: And he that only applies himself to Meditation, and neglects Labour and Exercise, does only wander and lose himself.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

The Morals of Confucius http://books.google.pt/books?id=izgCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=pt-PT, 2nd edition (London, 1724), Maxim X, p. 114.
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“Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss. ”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

“I had such great hope for him. He was just taking off and to lose his life at such a young age is a tragic loss. My thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.”

Heath Ledger (1979–2008) Australian actor

Mel Gibson, actor, whose on-screen eldest son, Gabriel Martin, was played by Heath Ledger in The Patriot. [In Quotes: Heath Ledger Tributes", http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7204267.stm, BBC News, Entertainment, bbc.co.uk (BBC), January 23, 2008, 2008-08-23]

“A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.”

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