Losing Quotes - Page 29

• You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Confidence, Business

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.1005, Penguin

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• [...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

  Jim Morrison

  Risk, Fusion, Stranger

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• Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fear, People, Worry

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• She'd never imagined it like this-when she thought of someone (a woman like herself)losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations; but at that moment it had seemed clear that there was another way, far quieter; a way that was numb and hopeless, flat, so much so that an emotion as strong as sorrow would have been a relief.

  Michael Cunningham

  Strong, Mind, Sorrow

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• The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully, understands her, and supports her. If that person is missing, if the child must risk losing the mother's love of her substitute in order to feel, then she will repress emotions.

  Alice Miller

  Mother, Art, Children

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.9, Basic Books

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• How much of human life is lost in waiting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Waiting, Lost

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.364, Library of America

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• Some risks are worth taking, even if it means losing a life.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Risk, Ifs

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• It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.

  Lana Del Rey

  Appreciation, Trust No One, Wish

  "Lana Del Rey: Ride". Short, Drama, Music, www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honor of losing and the joy of winning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Winning, Joy, Honor

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• I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't think-I don't think I had felt anything for a long time before that, but those emotions at least were familiar to me. Love I am not familiar with. I didn't recognize that feeling until I thought I had lost you in Ephrata. And when I thought I was losing you a second time, I realized I would give up anything to keep you-my lip service to other gods, but my pride, too, and my rage at all gods, everything for you.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Giving Up, Pain, Grief

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• Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles – and generally lose. I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.’’ Manuscript Found In Accra – Paulo Coelho

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Warrior, Winning

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• There's a reason I said I'd be happy alone. It wasn't 'cause I thought I'd be happy alone. It was because I thought if I loved someone and then it fell apart, I might not make it. It's easier to be alone. Because what if you learn that you need love and then you don't have it? What if you like it and lean on it? What if if you shape your life around it and then it falls apart? Can you even survive that kind of pain? Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is death ends. This, it could go on forever.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Pain, Fall, Love Is

  "Grey's Anatomy". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing one self to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others, would feel he was losing himself, and from which, therefore, he will always shrink as long as he is in his right mind...That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when one writes, why even night is not night enough.

  Susan Cain

  Writing, Mean, Night

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• Ready to be humiliated, Wanda?" Wes taunted. "You may have taken the planet, but you're losing this game.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Taken, Games, May

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• There's nothing special about losing your virginity over a toilet.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Special, Toilets, Virginity

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale: The Conclusion to The New York Times Bestselling Hush, Hush Saga”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.

  Jacques Lacan

  Past, Perfect, Becoming

  Jacques Lacan, Alan Sheridan (1980). “Écrits: a selection”

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• You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

  Tablo

  Unrequited Love, Losing Someone, Sad Relationship

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• I had never thought I could love another person this much. I also never thought I’d live in such fear of losing another person. Was this how everyone in love felt? Did they all cling tightly to their beloved and wake up terrified in the middle of the night, afraid of being alone? Was that an inevitable way of life when you loved so deeply? Or was it just those of us who walked on a precipice who lived in such panic?

  Richelle Mead

  Night, Wake Up, Panic

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• He dug his heels into his horse's flanks and sped down the path. He heard the others call out behind him, but he ignored them. He was sure Karl and Johan and the others would have searched the rosebush and that entire are carefully enough; there was nothing to learn there. But he wanted to get to the hunting lodge, to find Prince Grigori and punch him in the nose for losing Petunia, and then make certain that her sisters were alright. And then her would find Petunia, and he would bring her home.

  Jessica Day George

  Horse, Home, Hunting

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• The ego hates losing – even to God.

  Richard Rohr

  Hate, Ego

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons

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• It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Upset, Tears

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?

  Liane Moriarty

  Thinking, Losing Control, Fit

  Liane Moriarty (2013). “The Husband's Secret”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

  Gayle Forman

  Disappointment, Differences, Pieces

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jan 07, 2014

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• I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”- on losing her best friend

  Nora Ephron

  Believe, Book, Lunch

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jun 17, 2016

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• Because in the end nothing is worse than seeing the fall of one you loved. It was somehow worse than losing a love. It made everything seem questionable. It made the past bitter and confused.

  Cassandra Clare

  Confused, Fall, Past

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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