loss, n.All

Loss is a privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he 'lost his election'.

Loss is a condition that adds value. Anything one loses automatically doubles in value.

Loss lacks any relation to material benefits such as power or growth. It goes against the impulse to dress the positive value of loss in a round-about fashion as a gain.

Loss is not always bad. There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Loss , more than anything else, teaches us about the worth of things.

Loss is integral to love. The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Loss is sometimes easier to accommodate than to overcome. This is why the Necropolis of Love houses not just bodies but also minds and spirits.

Loss is wholly paradoxical, at once enormous and tiny.