Loss Quotes
Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be
The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.
Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.
And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.
...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.
I'm not against working out. It's just not effective for weight loss. I like strength training to tone and firm the body so you look tight. But working out just makes you hungrier.
Of course he freaked me out. Of course it's nothing to do with me. But none of that matters. He loved me and now he doesn't. I was everything to him and now I am nothing.
We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.
What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.
I can't stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I'm Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.
What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.
Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.
I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art.
People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.
The weight loss has been a secondary change to the mental changes I have made. Weight loss does not fix problems; how you view yourself does.
It's two days until tax time. I know it's late, but there is still time to deduct this show as a loss.
So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.
There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.
He doesn’t just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.
The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.
When my Azzedine jacket from 1987 died, I wrapped it up in a box, attached a note saying where it came from and took it to the Salvation Army. It was a big loss.
They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.
Seems to me that there is no better way to experience the depth of loss than after the fact. No more powerful instrument of imbuing value in an object than parting with it.
With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules — we're all working harder and longer than we used to.
And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.
I thought of the pillowcases as a symbol of love and loss, of retaining the memory of your loved one.
I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.
If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, Im going to teach you otherwise.
The main international problem facing America is our lack of - our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are.
I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.
Seems like I'm in a dream. Prince dead at 57. There are no words to describe this loss.
I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.
A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.
I've gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.
Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.
There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled
It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.