Quotes About Loss

They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.

I have nobody left to whom I can tell the story.

He was the son of his son--he was here, he was left behind.

In America you could lose everything except the memory of your original name.

How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.

His theme was happiness—what it is and what it might not have been, where he might find it and where it might have disappeared.

If Abir had not gone, she would not need to be remembered. Her absence, then, was her presence.

She had that emigrant's sadness—she would never go back to her old country—it was gone in more senses than one—but she was forever gazing homewards anyway.

It was Vietnam that brought me to my knees. In she came and took all three of my boys from right under my nose. She picked them up out of their beds, shook the sheets, and said, These ones are mine.

Her heart turned dark at the place that had been his.

I realized then that thinking about what my life might have been was an impossible thing to consider, because in thinking about what my life would have been with Mama still in it, I would have to completely disregard the knowledge of what my life was now, with all its troubles and dangers but also all its miraculous gifts.

It wasn't Sarah. Sarah wasn't dead.

The anger on his face slowly vanished... Don't do this. (Listen you miserable bag of wind, you creature who call yourself a god. You have betrayed us. We lose because they are better. We lose because we live in a world of dreams. We lose because we are as children.) My son; says Yama.

I think it was Lessing who once said, "There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose." An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man - his courage and hope, or lack of them - and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect.

and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly

No nos entraba en la cabeza que nos lo quitarían todo, absolutamente todo.

man has suffered another loss in his more recent development inasmuch as the traditions which buttressed his behavior are now rapidly diminishing. No instinct tells him what he has to do, and no tradition tells him what he ought to do; sometimes he does not even know what he wishes to do. Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism). A

Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man—his courage and hope, or lack of them—and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The

we know: the best of us did not return.

Hay cosas que pueden hacerte perder la razón, a no ser que no tengas ninguna razón que perder».

Lessing who once said, "There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.

Creo que fue Lessing quien afirmó: «Hay cosas que pueden hacerte perder la razón, a no ser que no tengas ninguna razón que perder». En una situación anormal, una reacción anormal constituye una conducta normal.

We had to strive to lead them back to this truth, or the consequences would have been much worse than the loss of a few thousand stalks of oats.