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Quotes About Irreparable

I don't know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.
~ Suzanne Collins
Life is sacrifice and risk taking, and nothing that doesn't entail some moderate amount of the former, under the constraint of satisfying the latter, is close to what we can call life. If you do not undertake a risk of real harm, reparable or even potentially irreparable, from an adventure, it is not an adventure.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Because I love somebody I don't trust anymore, I've lost all faith in myself. I bet it's like this when parents abuse their children. Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore. Check it out, Worm. This is what I mean by something irreparable.
~ Natsuo Kirino
You can repair anything but dead. You can't fix that
~ Chris Bohjalian
Unfortunately, this type of character defamation often follows the victim doggedly, and on occasion, has done irreparable damage. If retractions are printed, which is rare in the offending newspapers, they are seldom noted by the reader. I think it can be compared adequately to taking a bag full of feathers to a high hill and throwing them into the wind--retrieving all of them would be an impossible job.
~ Christine Jorgensen
They say that it is, nothing, that one does not suffer, that it is an easy end; that death in this why is very much simplified. Ah! then, what do they call they call this agony of six weeks, this summing up in one day? What then is the anguish of this irreparable day, which is passing so slowly and yet so fast? What is this ladder of tortures which terminates in the scaffold?
~ Victor Hugo
What an ominous minute is that in which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment of a sentient being!
~ Victor Hugo
Há na nossa civilização horas terríveis; são os momentos em que o direito penal sentencia um naufrágio. Que fúnebre é esse minuto em que a sociedade se distancia e consuma o abandono irreparável de um ser pensante!
~ Victor Hugo
He found himself falsely thinking that one could scarcely begrudge these people the mastery of the world; if they wanted it enough to pay the same price they exacted of others; if they were willing to bring the common suffering and irreparable loss upon themselves as everyone else.
~ Glenway Wescott
My soul does everything it can to repair the irreparable.
~ Helene Cixous
The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.
~ Charles Krauthammer
The rent left in the family fabric by Mother's death was irreparable.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
children, possibly irreparably, physically
~ Danielle Steel
Llegué a la conclusión de que no había tenido conciencia (...), que sólo sabía que cuando regresara a casa (...) habría cambios importantes que él mismo se encargaría de provocar. Y dichos cambios afectarían a toda criatura viviente de la casa. Mató a los animales para demostrar que lo que hacía era importante. Que era capaz de hacer algo irreparable.
~ Philip K. Dick
This is the pain that will inform all other pains from now on. You have lost your mother. That is the primal pain, what we call it in German. There will never be another pain like this pain. You cannot ready yourself for it because it is unimaginable.
~ Unknown
We had felt no joy in seeing Viena undone and the Germans broken, but rather anguish. Not compassion, but a larger anguish, which was mixed up with our own misery, with the heavy threatening sensation of an irreparable and definitive evil, which was present everywhere. Nestling like gangrene in the guts of Europe and the world. The seed of future harm.
~ Primo Levi
Sentii subito che nell'ordine perfetto dell'universo s'era aperta una breccia, uno squarcio irreparabile.
~ Italo Calvino
I was worried that my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my nervous system and maybe even my soul in some irreparable and perhaps not readily apparent way.
~ Donna Tartt
Though I would have died rather than told anyone, I was worried my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my nervous system and maybe even my soul in some irreparable and perhaps not readily apparent way.
~ Donna Tartt
One can feel an attraction towards a particular person. But to release that fount of sorrow, that sense of the irreparable, those agonies which prepare the way for love, there must be -- and this is perhaps, more than a person, the actual object which our passion seeks so anxiously to embrace -- the risk of an impossibility.
~ Marcel Proust
Pode-se ter inclinação por uma pessoa. Mas para desencadear essa tristeza, esse sentimento do irreparável, essas angústias, que preparam o amor, é preciso - e talvez isso e não a pessoa amada seja o ansiado objeto da paixão - o risco de uma impossibilidade.
~ Marcel Proust
Having a liking for someone is one thing; but to be afflicted with the sadness, the feeling of something irreparable having happened, the anguish which all accompany the onset of love, what is necessary is the risk – which may even be the object to which passion in its fretfulness tries to cling, rather than to a person – of an impossibility.
~ Marcel Proust
Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.
~ Edward Gibbon
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne