Losing Quotes - Page 20

• He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, Acting, Wearing A Mask

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from May 22, 2012

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• And, finally, I know, too. That throwing away this mess doesn't mean I'm giving something up. Or losing something I can't get back. It's just that there are too many pieces and too much dust. I'm just ready for something whole." —Pete Cassidy

  Cynthia Rylant

  Mean, Dust, Giving

  Cynthia Rylant (1996). “A Fine White Dust”, Aladdin

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• There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.

  George Saunders

  Tired, Long, Curiosity

  George Saunders (2006). “In Persuasion Nation”, p.94, Penguin

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• The things that stress me out haven't changed. But I don't wanna lose anything. So I thought that at least I would change. I'm lucky...that I'm afraid of losing something.

  Ai Yazawa

  Stress, Lucky, Changed

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• I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Letting Go, Dark, Start The Day

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• There’s no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost, there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still left to fight for. Serpine will have won only when there is no one left to stand against him. Until then, there is only the struggle, because tides do what tides do–they turn.

  Derek Landy

  Struggle, Fighting, Winning

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant -”, p.181, HarperCollins UK

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• When everyone else is losing their heads, it is important to keep yours.

  Unknown

  Important

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• I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex

  Simone Elkeles

  Losing Control, Alex, Lost

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• Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Prayer, Fall, Godly

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.219, Penguin

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• Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret Is this fragile love A way To say Good-bye

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Regret, Hands, Bye

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.251, Scholastic Inc.

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• Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I really the way I percieve myself, or is the person others see the truth of me? I wait for answers, but inside I know I have to go out and find them. And answers like knowledge, are not always where we first look for them.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, Waiting, Mind

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• [I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of drama. (Even now, I cannot believe Mark would want to risk losing that vinaigrette. You just don't bump into vinaigrettes that good.)

  Nora Ephron

  Drama, Believe, Risk

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.14, Vintage

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• there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.

  Jodi Picoult

  Losing Friends, Triumph, Next

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mistake, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Trying, Gregor The Overlander, Ifs

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander”, p.231, Scholastic Inc.

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• And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and self-respect - well, that's trophy enough for any guy's ego, huh?

  Jerry Spinelli

  Girl, Memories, Mean

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• What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?" "Because it all led me here to you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Lonely, Hate, Night

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.415, Macmillan

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• There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You’re free to float to the moon and evaporate or sink to the bottom of the deepest ocean. But you’re free to explore. Some people confuse that with drifting, I suppose. I like to think of it as growing.

  Deborah Smith

  Inspirational, Ocean, Insperational

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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

  Loss, Essence, Snakes

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• No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us

  Simon R. Green

  Likes, Defining, Characteristics

  Simon R. Green (2014). “Drinking Midnight Wine”, p.93, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Goes On, Way, Done

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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, Loss

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

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• If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

  John Irving

  Losing Control, Feels, Humiliating

  "The Mindful Writer". Book by Dinty W. Moore, 2016.

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• Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Mean, Loss

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.501, Random House

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• I told him that I loved him and that I'd always love him and I felt like a child who throws a centavo into a fountain and then she has to tell someone her most extraordinary wish even though she knows that the wish should be kept secret and that, in telling it, she is quite probably losing it. He replied that I was not to worry, that the penny could come out of the fountain again and again and again.

  Colum McCann

  Children, Worry, Secret

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.239, Bloomsbury Publishing

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