Loss Quotes - Page 17

• Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.

  James A. Baldwin

  Justice, Diversity, Identity

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• I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286 pound Silver Medalist Ghaffari (who broke down in tears on the medal stand) summed up his disappointment after an overtime loss to Aleksandr Karelin of Russia. A win would have given Ghaffari not only the Olympic gold medal but also his first victory over Karelin, something of which he has literally dreamed about after 20 meets between the two. Karelin dominates international competition in the sport.

  Matt Ghaffari

  Sports, Disappointment, Winning

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• Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything about it. Was there a psychological term for that? Was there a disease that involved an intense desire to die, but no will to go through with it? Couldn't talk and thoughts of suicide be considered a whole malady of their own, a special subcategory of depression in which the loss of a will to live has not quite been displaced by a determination to die?

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Suicide, Determination, Pain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for it; but above all he must abstain from taking the property of others, for men forget more easily the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, Father, War

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.53, Race Point Publishing

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• Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Broken

  Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Complete Art of War”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up one morning and shot himself. Nicklaus got up the next morning and shot 66.

  Ian Wooldridge

  Morning, Writing, Golf

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• And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2014). “Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

  Chris Evert

  Sports, Winning, Clouds

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• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Fashion, Regret, Reading

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.43

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• Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Jobs, Business

  Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this evanescent river of life wisely? With mindful awareness and love it becomes clear. You can fight against the river of change, or use its wisdom to teach you how to graciously move and create and flow with the full measure of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, praise and blame that make up every human incarnation.

  Jack Kornfield

  Moving, Fighting, Rivers

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• It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Unique, Abortion, Tissues

  "The Bitter Price of Choice". Washington Times, December 22, 1989.

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• We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Military, Enemy, Submarines

  "Historic Ship Exhibits in the United States". Book by United States Naval History Division and United States Navy, 1969.

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• The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.

  Sun Tzu

  Home, Army, People

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.

  Louis XI of France

  Pride, Haughtiness, Shame

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• I was horrified. Absolutely heart sick. All I could think of was that after 23 years together, I'd lost my faithful ally. I couldn't sleep, couldn't get the loss out of my mind. It was like discovering that someone in my family had died.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Heart, Sleep, Golf

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• It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

  Mark Twain

  Memories, Grieving, Years

  Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.

  Victoria Alexander

  Grief, Grieving, Three

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• But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.

  James K. Baxter

  Fall, Heart, Winter

  Vincent O'Sullivan, James K. Baxter (1976). “James K. Baxter”

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• I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.

  Dave Reichert

  Goodbye, War, Believe

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• The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

  Marcel Proust

  Beauty, Acquisition, Add

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.965, Jester House Publishing

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• No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Men, Cities

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

  Dan Quayle

  Silly, Dumb, Politics

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• A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be.

  Oliver Sacks

  Mean, Identity, Excess

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Blow, Enemy

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