"Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.
More by Blaise Pascal
“Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.”
“Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!”
“Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.”
More on Loss
“Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.”
“Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart”
“Gain or loss, what is worse?”