Loss Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.

  Kevin Rudd

  Leadership, Grief, Moving

  "David Leyonhjelm parodies Kevin Rudd's apology to stolen generations". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2016.

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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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• Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

  Colleen McCullough

  Wisdom, Cells, Mind

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• The bone's 6 inches out of his leg and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game.' I've not seen that in my life. Pretty special young man. I don't think we could have gathered ourselves - I know I couldn't have - if Kevin didn't say over and over again, 'Just go win the game,' I don't think we could have gone in the locker room with a loss after seeing that. We had to gather ourselves. We couldn't lose this game for him. We just couldn't.

  Rick Pitino

  Monday, Morning, Winning

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• You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.

  Jane Fonda

  Children, Soda Pop, Esoteric

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• Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.

  Stephen Levine

  Grief, Rope, Absence

  Stephen Levine (2005). “Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart”, p.9, Rodale

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• The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses on Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home some money every day, as though they were working for regular wages.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Wall, Home, Desire

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• I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold it out. Of all the speculative blunders there are few greater than trying to average a losing game. Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Average, Games, Trying

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• I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu!

  Jane Wagner

  Inspiring, Pounds, Deja Vu

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• Part of being young is you thinking that gaining 6 lbs. Is the end of the world

  Melissa McCarthy

  Thinking, World, Young

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• I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard i should be adhering to

  Camryn Manheim

  Hate, Weight, Fats

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• Diets are essentially traning courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure

  Paul McKenna

  Fats, Feels, Courses

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• You put me in a race where there's a lot on the line, especially when people tell me 'you can't win', or 'you're too small', you tell me those things and I'll find a way to prove you wrong.

  Mirinda Carfrae

  Winning, Race, People

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• As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Food, Eye, Journey

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• Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

  Ivan Illich

  Satisfaction, Kind, Economist

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• The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Office, Tasks

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Faith, Pain, Grief

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• Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

  William Wordsworth

  Pain, Sorrow, May

  'The Solitary Reaper' from 'Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803'

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• Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude.

  Mark Doty

  Inspirational, Pain, Passion

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• Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a part of who we are.

  Mark Nepo

  Grief, Grieving, Rising

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.384, Conari Press

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• Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?

  Rumi

  Memories, Grief, Writing

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• The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.

  Dean Koontz

  Gratitude, Grief, Love You

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• No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Grief, Self, Tragedy

  "Kelsey Grammer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2009.

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• I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.

  Donald Hall

  Grief, Wish, Rising

  Donald Hall (2007). “White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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