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Quotes About Loss

Never seek the wind in the field—it is useless to try and find what is gone." Your
~ Jeffrey Archer
Never seek the wind in the field. It is useless to try and find what is gone.
~ Jeffrey Archer
I never advise friends to put money in anything,. said Danny. 'It's a no-win situation - if they make a profit they forget that it was you who recommended it, and if they make a loss they never stop reminding you. My only advise would be not to gamble what you can't afford, and never to risk an amount that might cause you to lose a night's sleep
~ Jeffrey Archer
Seven pounds, nine shillings and sixpence turned out to be the value they'd put on Arthur's life. I sat alone at the kitchen table, and I think that was the moment I knew I'd never see my husband again.
~ Jeffrey Archer
SHE ONLY stopped screaming when she died. It was then that he started to scream. The
~ Jeffrey Archer
So how did you manage to lose Lunsdorf? He got away from Sergeant Roberts in Harrods. I sometimes wish I could do that when shopping with my wife, said the cabinet secretary.
~ Jeffrey Archer
Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. Love that overthrows empire. Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire & brimstone. For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery. But now -- I have lost my gift. It's as if my quill is broken, as if the organ of my imagination has dried up, as if the proud -illegible word- of my genius has collapsed.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
We had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us... calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide—it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese—the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The window was still open," Mr Lisbon said. "I don't think we'd ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close that window or else she'd go on jumping out of it forever.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
that since Cecilia's suicide, the Lisbons could hardly wait for night to forget themselves in sleep.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
His lost look of a man who realized that all this dying was going to be the only life he ever had.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
They had killed themselves over the failure to find a love that none of us could ever be.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
and left no doubt that Cecilia had done violence to herself.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
We found each other for so long before we lost each other.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Na kraju nije bilo bitno koliko su godina imale niti da su bile cure, nego samo da smo ih voljeli, a one nisu ?ule naš zov; ne ?uju nas ni danas, dok ih prorije?ene kose i salastih trbuha iz ku?ice na drvetu dozivamo da iza?u iz soba, kamo su otišle da zauvijek budu same - same u samoubojstvu, a samoubojstvo je dublje od smrti - i gdje mi nikad ne?emo na?i djeli?e da ih nanovo sklopimo.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The Lisbon girls were thirteen (Cecelia), and fourteen (Lux), and fifteen (Bonnie), and sixteen (Mary), and seventeen (Therese).
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Dr. Phil never talked about Smyrna and left the room if anyone did. He never mentioned his murdered sons and daughters. Maybe this was the reason for his survival.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Ördögi kör alakult ki: nem volt kit szeretni, hát nem volt többé szerelem, nem volt többé szerelem, nem születtek többé gyerekek, és mert nem születtek többé gyerekek, nem volt kit szeretni többé.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides