Loss Quotes - Page 10

• He doesn’t just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.

  David Levithan

  Eye, Upset, Looks

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.160, Egmont UK

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• So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hate, Weight, Body

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.887, Delphi Classics

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• How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Blood, Unexpected

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.594, Macmillan

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• There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.

  Ann Patchett

  Way, Used, Clear

  Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.269, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But… If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist… then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Father, Character

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.242, Random House

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• Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

  Julian Barnes

  Subtraction, Accumulation, Multiplication

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• Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something, something alive. A man can cry over a sick animal that he knows won't make it. The death of a child: a man can cry for that. But not because things are sad. A man, he thought, cries not for the future or the past but for the present.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Animal, Past

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on.

  James Patterson

  Goes On, Weird Things, Devastating Loss

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• the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Love Is, Unbearable, Sides

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.220, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But the fevers are on me now, the virus mad to ravage my last fifty T cells. It's hard to keep the memory at full dazzle, with so much loss to mock it. Roger gone, Craig gone, Cesar gone, Stevie gone. And this feeling that I'm the last one left, in a world where only the ghosts still laugh. But at least they're the ghosts of full-grown men, proof that all of us got that far, free of the traps and the lies. And from that moment on the brink of summer's end, no one would ever tell me again that men like me couldn't love.

  Paul Monette

  Love, Summer, Memories

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• There are memories that time can't erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend, Magnus Bane, if you don't believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable. Only bearable.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Believe, Forever

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• People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

  Anne Tyler

  People

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• So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Excited, Moments, Geography

  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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• Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Failure, Winning

  FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Feb 25, 2015

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• The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Lost, Felt

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “Can Man Live Without God”, p.50, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Dark, Punishment

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 15, 2016

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• You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.

  Jodi Picoult

  Missing, Feels

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

  Jon Krakauer

  Mind, Irreparable, Betray

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• Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection.” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it.’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’

  William P. Young

  Hurt, Pain, Son

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• Change is no loss, Will. Not always.

  Cassandra Clare

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• What are you doing now?" Al questioned "Seeing if your circumcision is gone? It is. My expression went blank, and Trent hesitated. He looked at me, and I put a hand to my mouth, face flaming. "Oh. My. God. Trent. I'm sorry" "Um" Trent said, clearly at a loss. "Call me tomorrow," Al said seriously, "I've got a curse that will take care of that. Unless you like the snake in a turtleneck look

  Kim Harrison

  Sorry, Expression, Hands

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• I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Sorry, Awful, Stage

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• Comforting someone when they were stricken with loss was something else. It meant commitment. It meant caring. It meant you wanted to ease their pain, and at the same time you were thanking God that whatever the bad thing was that had happened, it hadn't happened to them.

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Commitment, Caring

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

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• What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Home, Men, Yawning

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• This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love.

  Bell Hooks

  Girl, Men, Emotional

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”

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