Quotes about loss
loss looks weight
Imagine a weight-loss program at the end of which, instead of better health, good looks, and hot romantic prospects, you die. Somalia had become just this kind of spa. P. J. O'Rourke
loss light darkness
Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in spite of everything. But it had to pass through its own answerlessness, pass through frightful muting, pass through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech. It passed through and gave back no words for that which happened; yet it passed through this happening. Passed through and could come to light again, “enriched” by all this. Paul Celan
loss language spite
Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.
loss figures teach
Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along. Patti Davis
loss life-is worst
The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing. Patricia McConnell
loss weight excited
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. Maeve Binchy
loss visionaries world
He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated. Madonna Ciccone
loss way eras
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. Lyle Lovett
loss excuse
A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse. Michael Jordan
loss winning appreciate
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. Mark Twain
loss brutal
What was more brutal than loss of hope? Nicole Mones
loss hands should-have
No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal. Niecy Nash
loss tragedy finals
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
loss desire emeralds
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
loss mobility terrorism
I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.
loss grieving tragedy
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. D. James
loss dieting typical
The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.
loss ozone years
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 Newman
loss numbers tragedy
The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low. Paul Bremer
loss shelter stories
I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life. Paul Bettany
loss sisterhood men
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. Marya Mannes
loss people identity
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
loss men people
[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.
loss want-something balance
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
loss people rude
The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted. Marion Ross
loss often-is denial
Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.
loss numbers hearing
Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.
loss voice weight
First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I've lost Onassis. Maria Callas
loss men evil
God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy. Oswald Chambers
loss men
No man profiteth but by the loss of others. Michel de Montaigne
loss men lost-friendship
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
loss thinking grieving
I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it. Marianne Williamson
loss games play
If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours. Marilyn Manson