“Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.”
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn

Variant: Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.
“The anguish of loss may be redeemed, but can never be mediated.”
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958), Chapter Seven, Kierkegard, p. 138

“A woman being never at a loss… the devil always sticks by them.”
Source: Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals,

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

“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.”
Source: Margaret Ogilvy (1897), Ch. 8