Personal Loss Quotes

• This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.

  Gerard Arpey

  Grateful, Loss, Support

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• When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Loss, Difficult Situations

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• As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

  Clifford Geertz

  Strength, Religious, Pain

  Clifford Geertz (2017). “The Interpretation of Cultures”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mother, Strong, Loss

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• The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.

  John Dewey

  Religious, Loss, Religion

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.410, Indiana University Press

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• If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Loss, Cry, Ifs

  "Pelosi: Incoming Speaker Boehner 'Known to Cry'", www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2010.

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• In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, Loss, Egypt

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• Scripture says: "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." I call on every American family and the family of America to observe a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, honoring the memory of the thousands of victims of these brutal attacks and comforting those who lost loved ones. We will persevere through this national tragedy and personal loss. In time, we will find healing and recovery; and, in the face of all this evil, we remain strong and united, "one Nation under God."

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Prayer, Memories

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