Loss Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down.

  Katherine Applegate

  Hurt, Pain, Real

  Katherine Applegate (1995). “August Magic”, Simon Pulse

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• In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fear, Force, Ceremony

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We carry on. We have ourselves and we carry on- in spite of our losses and mistakes and women, I think, have more than most. We are good secret-keepers. We can tie weights to out guilt and passions, and hatred and deceitfulness, and let them sink down, so that you'd never know they existed at all. But we know. I can count all mine.

  Susan Fletcher

  Mistake, Passion, Thinking

  Susan Fletcher (2007). “Oystercatchers”, HarperCollins UK

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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 song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Song, Loneliness, Doe

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

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• The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love that exists only in his imagination, and the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.

  Anita Shreve

  Struggle, Light, Imagination

  Anita Shreve (2002). “The Last Time They Met”, Large Print Press

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• Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Hurt, Challenges, Strongholds

  Leah Hager Cohen (2003). “Heart, You Bully, You Punk”, Viking Press

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• You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Winning, Up To You, Faces

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Character, People

  "Emerson: Selected Journals 1841 - 1877" by Lawrence Rosenwald (p. 768), 2010.

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• Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Relationship, Letting Go, Identity

  "Good Grief". www.newyorker.com. February 1, 2010.

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• Nick, space. Now. (Acheron) Go, Nick, fetch. Here, boy, here. You should let me borrow one of those leather collars you wear and give me a tag with Kyrian’s number on it. ‘In case of loss, call my owner.’ (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Numbers, Space

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.331, Macmillan

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• Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.

  Herman E. Daly

  Wise, Country, Real

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• If somthing is not right or real, dont loss your self. - Clarice Bean Dont look Now

  Lauren Child

  Real, Self, Looks

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• Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

  Homer

  Dog, Moving, Son

  Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

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• You can't go home again

  Thomas Wolfe

  Inspirational, Home

  Title of novel (1940)

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• But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Regret, Personality

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.223, Bibliolis Books

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• Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.

  Michael Chabon

  Baseball, Errors, Games

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• Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Memories, Home

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.542, Penguin

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• There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Stories, Way, Relationships Ending

  "Charlie Kaufman: Hollywood's Brainiest Screenwriter Pleases Crowds By Refusing To Please" by Jason Tanz, www.wired.com. October 20, 2008.

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• Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

  Mark Helprin

  Want Something, Balance, Done

  Mark Helprin (2007). “Memoir from Antproof Case”, p.522, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Resolution, Resolve

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.4, Macmillan

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• And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.
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  Simon Armitage

  War, Hands, Land

  Simon Armitage (2011). “Sir Gawain e il Cavaliere Verde”, p.22, Guanda

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• We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.

  John Christopher

  Regret, Spurs, Use

  John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of, self? That first true loss, the furious bafflement of it. And never again quite so assured, confident.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Heart, Self, Independence

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