Loss Quotes - Page 25

• Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.

  Bill Bryson

  Geologist

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.184, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.

  Edward Bennett Williams

  Cutting, Winning, Effort

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• How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his or her own mind, a talent psychologists call metacognition. We know when we are angry; every emotional state comes with self-awareness attached, so that an individual can try to figure out why he's feeling what he's feeling. If the particular feeling makes no sense—if the amygdala is simply responding to a loss frame, for example—then it can be discounted. The prefrontal cortex can deliberately choose to ignore the emotional brain.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Simple, Emotional, Thinking

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• But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods.

  Douglas Adams

  Sadness, Men, Noise

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• I will find the good in this loss. I will make something happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

  Emily Giffin

  Happened, Happens

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an illness at all. Often, it can be a normal reaction to abnormal situations. Poverty, unemployment, and the loss of loved ones can make people depressed, and these social and situational causes of depression cannot be changed by drugs.

  Irving Kirsch

  People, Drug, Brain

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• Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will diminish to a point and vanish. I will be drawn down into that black whirlpool and be consumed by you. I shall become so small you can keep me in one of your osier cages and mock my loss of liberty.

  Angela Carter

  Eye, Reflection, Long

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• I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.

  Wes Anderson

  Mother, Sorry, Attractive

  "The Royal Tenenbaums". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Reality, Mystical Experiences, Ego

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.401, Macmillan

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• In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes, and the influence of strong and extraordinary stimuli. In man precisely similar conditions constitute the usual causes of nervous and psychic disturbances. Different conditions productive of extreme excitation, such as intense grief or bitter insults, often lead, when the natural reactions are inhibited by the necessary restraint, to profound and prolonged loss of balance in nervous and psychic activity.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Dog, Strong, Grief

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• It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Sin, Pleasure

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• It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Political, Leaving

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.433, Penguin

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• Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And In doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sky, Snow, Doubt

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

  Nora Roberts

  Opening Up, Giving, Different

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.1043, Penguin

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• The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

  John Steinbeck

  Joy, Trying, Energy

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.64, Penguin

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• I know absolutely nothing about where I'm going. I'm fine with that. I'm happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no friends, and no family really, and I didn't really care. I had nothing, and nothing to lose, and then I knew loss. What I cared about was gone; it was all lost. Now I have everything to gain; everything is a clean slate. It's all blank pages waiting to be written on. It's all about going forward. It's all about uncertainty and possibilities.

  Gregory Galloway

  Waiting, No Friends, Gone

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• I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick.

  Sue Enquist

  Softball, Team, Winning

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• I believe it's our loss of connection with our instinctual side that prevents us from being effective pack leaders for our dogs. Perhaps it's also why we also seem to be failing at being positive guardians of our planet.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Believe, Leader

  Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier (2007). “Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life”, p.4, Crown Archetype

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• The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Beautiful, Cherries, Impermanence

  Peggy Orenstein (2008). “Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Rom”, p.126, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado.

  Tammara Webber

  Cities, Doubt, Lines

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.915, Tammara Webber

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• Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence, that the public will experience a catastrophic loss if he does not complete his novel. The public is just clamoring to give him his fame. From the book Dare to be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction by

  Leonard Bishop

  Powerful, Believe, Book

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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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• It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Ideas, Information, Way

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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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