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Winston Churchill quote: "Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of..."
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody. Washington Irving
...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust. Alberto Moravia
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for... Dan Simmons
What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet. Mikhail Lermontov
[...] leaving for a day or two that hopeless sense of loss which makes beauty what it is: a distant lone tree against golden heavens; ripples of light on the inner curve of a bridge; a thing impossible to capture. Vladimir Nabokov
Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss Helen Fielding
Frankly," said the Doctor, "I am at a loss to understand my own emotions. I can think of no entertainment that fills me with greater detestation than a display of competitive athletics, none - except possibly folk dancing. Evelyn Waugh
George Orwell quote: "It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as..."
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. George Orwell
I looked over the despondency of the home crowd. Fools! Fools! I thought. Love it! Love the loss as well as the gain. Go home and dig it. Nobody was killed. We saw victory and defeat, and they were both wonderful. Barry Hannah
If a householder is a genuine devotee, he performs his duties without attachment; he surrenders the fruit of his work to God - his gain or loss, his pleasure or pain. Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (Abridged) Ramakrishna
George W. Bush quote: "It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life."
It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life. George W. Bush
I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled. Neil Gaiman
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Why is the measure of love loss?"
Why is the measure of love loss? Jeanette Winterson
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "...such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin."
...such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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