His Loss Quotes

• Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!

  Kelly Clarkson

  Girl, Loss, Guy

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• William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.

  Glenn Ford

  Friendship, Loss, Good Friend

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• This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.

  Sidney Jourard

  Health, Loss, Self

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• In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?

  Wayne Muller

  Death, Powerful, Grief

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• My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.

  Linda Hamilton

  Grief, Heart, Loss

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

  John Milton

  Loss, Lovely, Devil

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.32

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• If you want to be a proud person, then you want to avenge your loss. For me it was [Josean] Serra and [Joe] Hughes, and for Michael Bisping, Henderson is one of his losses - one of his most painful losses. So I understand why he wants to avenge it. As an athlete I understand.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Athlete, Loss, Proud Person

  "Interview: A sit-down with Georges St-Pierre in Israel". Interview with Ram Gilboa, www.bloodyelbow.com. August 10, 2016.

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Suicide, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.

  Natasha Richardson

  Dad, Father, Loss

  "My family and other actors". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2003.

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• The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Men, Soul

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• I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

  Isaac Deutscher

  Fall, Loss, Men

  Isaac Deutscher (2003). “The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921”, p.7, Verso

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• I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed, and that did not represent the attempt to prevent or undo this ‘loss of face’—no matter how severe the punishment, even if it includes death.

  James Gilligan

  Loss, Punishment, Feelings

  James Gilligan (1996). “Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes”, Putnam Adult

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• In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loss, Class, Government

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904”

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• At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary comfort of our addictive behaviour. We cannot drown our sorrows. We must face the fact that we don’t know, really, where we are, how we got here, how long the pain will last, or how to move past it. That uncertainty may be the most painful part of not knowing a God: no one is there to reassure us that a God will take the pain and confusion away. We simply don’t know. And we have no way to numb ourselves or to forget the condition we’re in.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Pain, Moving, Loss

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• To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

  Seneca the Younger

  Loss, Evil, Endeavour

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• God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.

  Oswald Chambers

  Loss, Men, Evil

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.304, Discovery House

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• Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God's will, to the power of His redemption, and to the authority of His Word. For this loss it is paying dearly in a swift relapse into paganism.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Christian, Religious, Loss

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• ... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority.

  Hannah Arendt

  Religious, Loss, Afterlife

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought”, Viking Adult

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• He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.

  George Herbert

  Trade

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.343

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• Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Loss, Appetite For Life, Despair

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.

  Kallistos Ware

  Educational, Loss, Men

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• Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.

  John Dryden

  Loss, Vices, Sin

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (1995). “The Poems of John Dryden: 1693-1696”, p.163, Pearson Education

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• He who knows what it is to enjoy God will dread His loss; he who has seen His face will fear to see His back.

  Richard Alleine

  God, Loss, Faces

  Richard Alleine (1836). “Heaven opened; or, A brief and plain discovery of the riches of God's covenant of grace”, p.194

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• You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses. If you win for thirty days in a row, that makes no difference if on the thirty-first you have a bad night, go crazy, and throw it all away.

  Bobby Baldwin

  Crazy, Heart, Loss

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• One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Loss, Lost Ones, Alive

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.140, Hachette UK

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