Loved Ones Quotes - Page 5

• For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Gun, Thug, Ems

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• TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been cut short, if not for hasty interventions by loved ones. Or Fate. Three people, with nothing at all in common except age, proximity, and a wish to die. Three tapestries, tattered at the edges and come unwoven to reveal a single mutual thread.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fate, Cutting, Wish To Die

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Mean, Adjectives

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• Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243)

  Norman Doidge

  Past, Important Relationships, Haunting

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.243, Penguin

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• How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Names, Giving, Labels

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.18, Random House

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• Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Giving, Rotting, Facts

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.168, Penguin

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• No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. It's about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness. The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit. ... Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen.(Armintrout, All Souls' Night, 367)

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Butterfly, Night, Sight

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• People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.

  Anne Tyler

  Love, Next Day, Water

  Anne Tyler (2004). “Back When We Were Grownups”

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• Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. the lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glance of the lover’s inward eyes.

  Toni Morrison

  Stupid, Eye, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Feb 23, 2015

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• People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

  John Green

  Alaska, Ideas, Afterlife

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.79, Penguin

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• The one who confidently looks forward to an eternal reward for his efforts in mortality is constantly sustained through his deepest trials. When he is disappointed in love, he does not commit suicide. When loved ones die, he doesn’t despair; when he loses a coveted contest, he doesn’t falter; when war and destruction dissipate his future, he doesn’t sink into a depression. He lives above his world and never loses sight of the goal of his salvation.

  Harold B. Lee

  Suicide, War, Sight

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• If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

  Sophie Kinsella

  Friends Forever, Honest, What Is Life

  Sophie Kinsella (2004). “Can You Keep a Secret?”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)

  Stephen Levine

  Love You, Healing, Eye

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.35, Harmony

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• I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear of it, or the lack of it. Why? Why is love so universally and inevitably heart-breaking, whether it be through the end of a love affair, the death of a loved one or being locked in with the habitual casualness or grim indifference of a partner? The answer is because we've been taught and conditioned by the world to believe that love is a feeling.

  Barry Long

  Life, Believe, Teaching

  "Love is not a feeling". "What is Enlightenment", Volume 4, Number 2, 1995.

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• One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

  Simone Weil

  Life, Knowing, Atheism

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.84, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Never the time and the place
  And the loved one all together.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Together

  'Never the Time and the Place' (1883)

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• A human life is a story told by God.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Sympathy, Condolences, Grief

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• We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

  David Sheff

  Problem, Deny, Naive

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

  Kate Morton

  Grief, Poet, Wretched

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.887, Simon and Schuster

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• If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Heart, Sea

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

  Allison Pearson

  Christmas, Boxing, Feelings

  Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”

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• One beach-colored. One brown. One Loved. One Loved a Little Less.

  Arundhati Roy

  Beach, Littles, Brown

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• The thing that you are too young to understand is that we all hide things. We hide them from our lovers because we wish to present our best selves, but also because if it is real love, we expect our loved one to simply understand it, without needing to ask. In a true partnership, the kind that lasts through the ages, there is an unspoken communion.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Self, Wish

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2023, Simon and Schuster

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• it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

  Daniel Handler

  Loss, Sometimes, Lost

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• Loving one another isn’t enough to make a relationship last. The real glue that holds a couple (or friends or family) together is the effort both put into helping others who are in need of financial, health, personal or emotional assistance. Today, sustain your connection to a loved one by finding ways you both can help others, with a genuine heart.

  Yehuda Berg

  Couple, Real, Heart

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