Loss Quotes - Page 13

• This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.

  Ann Aguirre

  Regret, War, Sacrifice

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Devil's Punch: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.279, Penguin

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• There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.

  Ann Patchett

  Way, Used, Clear

  Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.269, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

  Julian Barnes

  Subtraction, Accumulation, Multiplication

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• Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something, something alive. A man can cry over a sick animal that he knows won't make it. The death of a child: a man can cry for that. But not because things are sad. A man, he thought, cries not for the future or the past but for the present.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Animal, Past

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on.

  James Patterson

  Goes On, Weird Things, Devastating Loss

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• 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.

  David Levithan

  Eye, Upset, Looks

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.160, Egmont UK

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• But the fevers are on me now, the virus mad to ravage my last fifty T cells. It's hard to keep the memory at full dazzle, with so much loss to mock it. Roger gone, Craig gone, Cesar gone, Stevie gone. And this feeling that I'm the last one left, in a world where only the ghosts still laugh. But at least they're the ghosts of full-grown men, proof that all of us got that far, free of the traps and the lies. And from that moment on the brink of summer's end, no one would ever tell me again that men like me couldn't love.

  Paul Monette

  Love, Summer, Memories

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• You do not want a war. You have known violence, you have suffered loss, but you have seen nothing of war. War is not just the business of death; it is the anti-thesis of life. Hope, tortured and flayed, reason, dismembered, grinning at its limbs in its lap. Decency, raped to death... You will be a murderer and more.

  Joss Whedon

  War, Lap, Want

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• He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Suffering, Illusion

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.16, DoctorZed Publishing

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• I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Wall, Grief, Fall

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The Cat's Table”, p.152, Random House

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• Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love Is, Conquer The World, Laughing

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• There are memories that time can't erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend, Magnus Bane, if you don't believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable. Only bearable.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Believe, Forever

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• I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.

  Robin McKinley

  Thinking, Sorrow, Way

  Robin McKinley (2011). “Beauty”, p.177, Random House

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• 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.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Excited, Moments, Geography

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.100, Macmillan

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• Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Failure, Winning

  FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Feb 25, 2015

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• The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Problem, Sometimes

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Love Is, Unbearable, Sides

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.220, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Dark, Punishment

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 15, 2016

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• You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.

  Jodi Picoult

  Missing, Feels

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days, the hours, when a walk of two miles, every step of which was pleasant, as it brought him nearer and nearer to her, took him to her sweet presence - every step of which was rich, as each recurring moment that bore him away from her made him recal some fresh grace in her demeanour, or pleasant pungency in her character.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mother, Sweet, Father

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1236, Delphi Classics

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• People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

  Anne Tyler

  People

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• Costis bowed stiffly. “I am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Order, Bed, Majesty

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• You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.

  Ted Hughes

  Pain, Acceptance, Sacrifice

  Ted Hughes (2011). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, p.512, Faber & Faber

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• The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Lost, Felt

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “Can Man Live Without God”, p.50, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.

  William P. Young

  Pain, Suffering, Transformation

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