Losing Quotes - Page 21

• I’m lucky that I’m afraid of losing something

  Ai Yazawa

  Lucky

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• Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. (Wakefield)

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Confusion, Forever

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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• Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

  Mitch Albom

  Inspiring, Memories, Remember

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2017

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• The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Teacher, Growing Up, Fun

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• Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Hurt, Knows

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• He was a super shiny boy and I liked the shape of him. Under the blanket. In the shower. I liked his shadow on the street and his imprint on the sofa. I hated the smell of hair gel on his head, but I loved it on the pillow. I love the smell of losing someone.

  Emma Forrest

  Boys, Hair, Smell

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

  John Milton

  Hope, Fear, Farewell

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 108

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• Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?" She laughed and shook her head. "No. Too much power. No one could handle all that magic, not without losing her mind." Oh. Great.

  Richelle Mead

  Magic, Mind, Elements

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.118, Penguin

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• For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.

  Stefan Zweig

  Memories, Long Ago, Order

  Stefan Zweig (2009). “The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European”, p.12, Pushkin Press

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• You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Hair, Facts, Easier

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the poor man who clenches so tightly to the gold he is given - for fear of losing it. The man of wealth spends his gold freely to accomplish his will in the world. It is the same with life.' Suddenly ashamed of my conspicuous poverty, I lowered my eyes. But Scatha placed a hand beneath my chin and raised my head. 'Cling too tightly to your life and you will lose it, my Reluctant Warrior. You must become the master of your life, not its slave.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Eye, Warrior, Men

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• Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.

  Italo Calvino

  Memories, Cities, Venice

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• Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Habit, Said

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• I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

  Deb Caletti

  Liars, Losing Someone

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• Like a tree losing its leaves. I forget even the thing I was thinking.

  Jenny Downham

  Thinking, Tree, Forget

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

  Suzanne Collins

  Romantic, Hunger For Love, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.86, Scholastic Inc.

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• And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Boys, Talking

  "The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 14, 2008.

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• Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.

  Suzanne Collins

  Cheating, Joy, Trying

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

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• Although there are times I'd give anything to have her back, I'm glad she went first. Losing her was like being cleft down the middle. It was the moment it all ended for me, and I wouldn't have wanted her to go through that.

  Sara Gruen

  Elephants, Giving, Firsts

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• People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Appreciation, People, Giving

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• I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.

  Paulo Coelho

  Winning, Thinking

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• Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, Risk

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

  Kij Johnson

  Grieving, Emotion, Dangerous

  Kij Johnson (2001). “The Fox Woman”, p.180, Macmillan

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• How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Loss, Foolish, Dread

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• Aren't you afraid?' 'Of what?' 'Of losing yourself.' 'That's what I'm hoping for.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Losing Yourself

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