Loss Quotes - Page 15

• A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Men, Simplicity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.288

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• Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Gains, Accepting, Treats

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• Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Forever, Doe

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• Blaire, This teardrop represents many things. The tears I know you’ve shed over holding your mother’s piece of satin. The tears you’ve shed over each loss you’ve experienced. But it also represents the tears we’ve both shed as we’ve felt the little life inside you begin to move. The tears I’ve shed over the fact I’ve been given someone like you to love. I never imagined anyone like you Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you I’m humbled that you chose me. This is your something blue. I love you, Rush

  Abbi Glines

  Mother, Moving, Love You

  Abbi Glines (2014). “The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

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• I have very few rules in life, but one of them is to never decline an adventure. The others are: to avoid becoming romantically entangled with sea creatures; to always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity; to demand ready money up front; and to never play cards with Catarina Loss.

  Cassandra Clare

  Adventure, Sea, Play

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Eye, Years

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1434, Simon and Schuster

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• I brought out the most powerful tool I had in my arsenal. "If you resist," I said into Reyes's ear, "I'll be forced to Taser you." He looked at what I had in my hand. "That's a phone." "I have an app. You'll probably experience nerve damage. Slight memory loss.

  Darynda Jones

  Memories, Powerful, Phones

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• There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  World, Reason, Greater

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.67, Penguin

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• It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

  Hugh Howey

  Blow, Illusion, Humbling

  "Wool Omnibus Edition". Book by Hugh Howey, January 25, 2012.

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• For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Moving, Grieving, Challenges

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.115, Penguin

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• No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.

  Tammara Webber

  Grief, Choices, Swim

  Tammara Webber (2013). “Here Without You”, p.123, Tammara Webber

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• You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away. Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Missing Someone, Thinking, Parks

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.276, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I began to understand that there were certain talkers - certain girls - whom people liked to listen to, not because of what they, the girls, had to say, but because of the delight they took in saying it. A delight in themselves, a shine on their faces, a conviction that whatever they were telling about was remarkable and that they themselves could not help but give pleasure. There might be other people - people like me - who didn't concede this, but that was their loss. And people like me would never be the audience these girls were after, anyway.

  Alice Munro

  Girl, Shine On, People

  "Some Women" by Alice Munro, www.newyorker.com. December 22, 2008.

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• Staring into the mirror, I was surprised to see a haunted look in my brown eyes. There was pain there, pain and loss that even the nicest dress and makeup couldn't hide.

  Richelle Mead

  Pain, Eye, Makeup

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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• I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Life, Change, Letting Go

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• No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may still be ahead of you. Don't misunderstand me: the pain of your loss will remain with you for the rest of your life. But great joy will be there right beside it. Deep sorrow and deep joy can exist within you, side by side. At every moment. And it's not confusing. And it's not a conflict.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Pain, Long, Joy

  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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• I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around how we frame it. The lens we see it through, or the way we tell our own stories. We mythologize ourselves. So I was thinking about Persephone's story, and how different it would be if you told it only from the perspective of Hades. Same story, but it would probably be unrecognizable. Demeter's would be about loss and devastation. Hades's would be about love.

  Kiersten White

  Thinking, Perspective, Would Be

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• What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Positive, Grief, Winter

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 3, sc. 2, l. [223]

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• Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Mom, Mother, Time

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1887). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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• The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

  Seneca the Younger

  Letting Go, Time, Future

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• If rulers learn to undervalue the lives of their own subjects by the custom of war, how much more do they undervalue the lives of their enemies! As they learn to hear of the loss of five hundred or a thousand of their own men, with perhaps less feeling than they would hear of the death of a favorite horse or dog, so they learn to hear of the death of thousands after thousands on the side of the enemy with joy and exultation.

  Noah Worcester

  Inspirational, Dog, Horse

  Noah Worcester, Massachusetts Peace Society (Founded 1815) (1816). “The friend of peace”, p.24

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• In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience - the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men - each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient - they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

  John F. Kennedy

  Courage, Inspiration, Sacrifice

  Selected Quotations from John F. Kennedy's Book "Profiles in Courage", www.jfklibrary.org. 1957.

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• They that love beyond the world
  cannot be separated by it.
  Death cannot kill what never dies.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.

  Neil McDonald

  Freedom, Government, Safety

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• Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

  Wendell Willkie

  Love, Freedom, Hate

  Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “One World”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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