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Loss Quotes (page 12)

J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "When heads are at a loss bodies must serve."
When heads are at a loss bodies must serve. J. R. R. Tolkien
Be a damn fire eater now. He'd seen it in the war work the same way. More of a change than any loss of virginity. Fear gone like an operation. Something else grew in its place. Main thing a man had. Made him into a man. Women knew it too. No bloody fear. Ernest Hemingway
I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up. Augusten Burroughs
It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the emotion of loss (I do note weep), that is all. For the rest, everything has remained motionless. For what I have lost is not a Figure (the Mother), but a being; and not a being, but a quality (a soul): not the indispensable, but the irreplaceable. Roland Barthes
Jodi Picoult quote: "Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak..."
Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect? Jodi Picoult
[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed. Pericles
My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul. Salvador Dali
This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself. Now there is a loss beyond imagining. Michael Cunningham
The Great Khan tried to concentrate on the game: but now it was the game’s reason that eluded him. The end of every game is a gain or a loss: but of what? What were the real stakes? At checkmate, beneath the foot of the king, knocked aside by the winner’s hand, nothingness remains: a black square, or a white one. By disembodying his conquests to reduce them to the essential, Kublai had arrived at the extreme operation: the definitive conquest, of which the empire’s multiform treasures were... Italo Calvino
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
Mattie Stepanek quote: "How can we choose to continue. Playing this deadly. And..."
How can we choose to continue. Playing this deadly. And impersonal game of loss? Mattie Stepanek
The overall impact of postmodernism is that many other groups now share with black folks a sense of deep alienation, despair, uncertainty, loss of sense of grounding even if it is not informed by shared circumstance. Bell Hooks
Benjamin Franklin quote: "After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser."
After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser. Benjamin Franklin
There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it. Ann Patchett
Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness Orhan Pamuk

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