Loss Quotes - Page 9

• Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Sooner Or Later

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.55, Penguin

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• Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.

  William P. Young

  Pain, Hands, Forgiving

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• I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  People, Special, Alive

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.694, Penguin

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• Loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Essence, Snakes, Mind

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• How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of admitting that you have been rejected.

  Stephen Fry

  Pain, Admitting, Someone You Love

  Stephen Fry (1996). “Making History: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Mother, Dream, Loneliness

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• Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness

  Joss Whedon

  Goodness

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• It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian'. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can tell, no paintings or sculptures. The difference between us and the artists of the 1920's is that they they thought such a work of art could be made. Perhaps it was a certain naivete that made them think so. But it is certainly our loss that we cannot.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Book, Thinking

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• Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as though it was something I was losing now; a loss I was experiencing for the first time, and not something I had lost a long time ago.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Dream, Sleep, Air

  Nawal El Saadawi (2015). “Woman at Point Zero”, p.25, Zed Books Ltd.

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• Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' - he held out both hands as though shifting a piece of furniture - 'were going to be sitting there, and I was going to get down on one knee, and...and...

  Lauren Willig

  Hands, Oysters, Mourning

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• The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Song, Loneliness, Doe

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

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• The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love that exists only in his imagination, and the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.

  Anita Shreve

  Struggle, Light, Imagination

  Anita Shreve (2002). “The Last Time They Met”, Large Print Press

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• She loves you," the Prince cried. "She loves you still and you love her, so think of that--think of this too: in all this world, you might have been happy, genuinely happy. Not one couple in a century has that chance, not really, no matter what the storybooks say, but you could have had it, and so, I would think, no one will ever suffer a loss as great as you.

  William Goldman

  Couple, Love You, Thinking

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.286, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Winning, Up To You, Faces

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss.

  Yukio Mishima

  Dark, Clouds, Blue

  "Runaway Horses".

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• If a man loses a dear friend, he looks around and sees many friends come to console and comfort him. If a man loses his wealth, after a little thought he will realize that the delight that came from wealth will be restored by finding more. Thus he forgets his loss and is consoled. But if a man's heart is deprived of peace, where will he find it again, how will he replace it?

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Men, Comfort

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• Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Relationship, Letting Go, Identity

  "Good Grief". www.newyorker.com. February 1, 2010.

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• I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Character, People

  "Emerson: Selected Journals 1841 - 1877" by Lawrence Rosenwald (p. 768), 2010.

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• Nick, space. Now. (Acheron) Go, Nick, fetch. Here, boy, here. You should let me borrow one of those leather collars you wear and give me a tag with Kyrian’s number on it. ‘In case of loss, call my owner.’ (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Numbers, Space

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.331, Macmillan

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• Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.

  Herman E. Daly

  Wise, Country, Real

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• All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Responsibility, Choices, Privilege

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss.

  John Connolly

  Pain, Grief, Men

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• But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Regret, Personality

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.223, Bibliolis Books

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• Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Memories, Home

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.542, Penguin

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• He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.

  Emma Forrest

  Missing, Slipping, Twenties

  Emma Forrest (2007). “Thin Skin”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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