Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Celan

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

Patti Davis

Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.

Patricia McConnell

The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing.

Oscar Wilde

She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.

Maeve Binchy

I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure.

Madonna Ciccone

He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated.

Mac Miller

I just like to sing for people who have lost love.

Lyle Lovett

The loss of Jerry Garcia feels like the end of an era in the same way it felt when Elvis died and John Lennon was killed.

Lorrie Moore

All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe light love, lost and found love, lost and found and lost love, lost and lost and lost love—some people were having no luck at all. The DJ sounds quick and smooth and after-shaved, the rest of the world a mess by comparison.

Michael Jordan

A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse.

Mia Farrow

Life is about losing everything, gracefully.

Melissa Bank

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

Mark Twain

what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

Nicole Mones

What was more brutal than loss of hope?

Niecy Nash

No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal.

Nick Saban

I don't like to lose. I don't expect to lose.

Mary-Louise Parker

I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.

John Green

I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him—that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.

John Green

But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?

John Green

That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.

Patti Smith

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

Patti Smith

I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.

Patanjali

The longest journey begins with a single step.

P. D. James

The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

P. J. O'Rourke

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

Ovid

Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.

Paul Newman

We've polluted the stratosphere with these chlorine and bromine compounds, and because it's now colder, and because we have this change in the climate, we're getting more ozone loss than we would have gotten in a normal year.

Paul Bremer

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

Paul Bettany

I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.

Marya Mannes

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

Marshall McLuhan

Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.

Marshall McLuhan

[On Jimmy Carter] "Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he puts nostalgia in its place.

Marshall McLuhan

When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.