But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Philippians 3:7.

For I say, this is death and the sole death, When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

-Browning, Robert
  Dramatis Personae,'A Death in the Desert'.

Contrary to reports that I took the loss badly,I slept like a babyöevery two hours I woke up and cried. 278

-Dole, Bob (RobertJoseph)
  On losing the presidential nomination.  ABC  T V broadcast,14  Aug.

There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.5.

   A little season of love and laughter, Of light and life, and pleasure and pain, And horror of outer darkness after, And dust returneth to dust again. Then the lesser life shall be as the greater, And the lover of life shall join the hater, And the one thing cometh sooner or later, And no one knoweth the loss or gain.

-Gordon, Adam Lindsay
'The Swimmer', stanza10, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).

The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.

-Jevons,William Stanley
The Theory of Political Economy.

Pesons le gain et la perte, en prenant croix que Dieu est. Estimons ces deux cas: si vous gagnez, vous gagnez tout; si vous perdez, vous ne perdez rien.Gagezdonc qu'il est, sans he¤  siter. Let us weigh up the gain and loss involved in calling heads that God exists. Let us assess thetwo cases: if you winyou win everything, if you lose you lose nothing.Do not hesitate then; wager that he does exist.

-Pascal, Blaise
c.1654^1662  Pense¤  es, no.233 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

   O sweet, on a wretch wilt thou be revenged? Shall such high planets tend to the loss of a worm?

-Shute, Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway
The Old Arcadia,'Fourth Eclogues'.

Still falls the Rainö Dark as the world of man, black as our lossö Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails Upon the cross.

-Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa
  'The Raids,1940. Night and Dawn'.

   The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity; men started at the intelligence, and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend.

-Southey, Robert
  The Life of Nelson, ch.9.