Losing Quotes - Page 17

• I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.

  Lisa Lutz

  Breathing, Mind

  Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Possibility, Without Hope, House Of Leaves

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?" "Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing I had died at childbirth." "Oh, you say that when you don't get a prize in your Lucky Charms.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Husband, Thinking, Lucky Charms

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• You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Salute, Wells

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.32, Random House

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• This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mind, Twenties, Would Be

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.49, Penguin Group

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• Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

  Ali Smith

  Moving, Book, Mean

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• Four hundred years of losing out on the girl of my dreams isn't sitting very well with me these days.

  Alyson Noel

  Girl, Dream, Years

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• Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says. “You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down. “It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Thinking, Night

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• Look at what you've done, you're losing me is what you've won. Got me planning to go solo

  Demi Lovato

  Looks, Done, Planning

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• I loved when Bush came out and said, 'We are losing the war against drugs.' You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, War, Humor

  Bill Hicks at the "Just For Laughs" Comedy Festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1990.

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• I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Hate, People

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Moon, Thinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• There are times a women's just got to fight even if she knows it's a losing battle

  Novala Takemoto

  Fighting, Battle, Knows

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• Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Heart, People

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• The more my dream are fulfilled the quicklier they become realities losing their shine.

  Ai Yazawa

  Dream, Reality, Shining

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• We are afraid of losing what we have.

  Paulo Coelho

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.

  Portia de Rossi

  Race, Class, Firsts

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

  Confucius

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

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• In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land)

  Wendell Berry

  Loss, Thinking, Land

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• Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Failure

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.151, Robert Kiyosaki

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• Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

  Amy Sedaris

  Pet, Sometimes, Painful

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• Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Winning, Self, Stupidity

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• I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Here I Am, Able, Too Much

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he leaned in to kiss her, she gave herself over to him. While he held her close, she ran her hands over his shoulders and back, feeling the strength in his arms. She knew he’d wanted more in their relationship than she’d been willing to offer, but here and now, she suddenly knew she had no other choice. There was only this moment, and it was theirs.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Kissing, Hands, Choices

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• The key isn't winning -- or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to be -- but how will I know unless I try? Sure, it's scary, but what's the alternative? Stagnation - A safer, more terrible form of death. Not of the body, but of the spirit. An animal knows what it is, and accepts it. A man may know what he is -- but he questions. He dreams. He strives. Changes. Grows.

  Chris Claremont

  Dream, Animal, Winning

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