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Quotes About Loss

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world
~ Ron Rash
A small profit it better than a big loss
~ Ron Rash
A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?
~ Ron Suskind
With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.
~ Ron Wyden
Mental health professionals have said for a long time that individuals cannot adapt well to too many life changes at once. If you suffer a loss in the family, change jobs, and move all within a short time, the chances are your own internal stability may break down, or show signs of serious strain.
~ Ronald A. Heifetz
You know the adage "People resist change." It is not really true. People are not stupid. People love change when they know it is a good thing. No one gives back a winning lottery ticket. What people resist is not change per se, but loss. When change involves real or potential loss, people hold on to what they have and resist the change.
~ Ronald A. Heifetz
Old age is a lot of crossed off names in an address book.
~ Ronald Blythe
I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle-- And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, and not a sin- gle regret.
~ Ronald Everett Capps
What people resist is not change per se, but loss.
~ Ronald Heifetz
He invited anthropologists to study research into the European trials, and termed their recent neglect of this 'even more disconcerting' than the loss of interest by historians of Europe in African parallels
~ Ronald Hutton
We're losing an entire generation. They're just gone. It's one of the worst things to happen to the church.
~ Ronald J. Sider
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
~ Ronald Reagan
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
~ Ronald Reagan
As long as their fear of the dragon is stronger than their greed, this is a reasonable loss, said he. What's concerned us is that someone will become bold and organize a way to maim or kill her. The hoard is only metals and jewels. Nothing essential to life. Egnis's mystery is.
~ Ronlyn Domingue
Y es raro porque, aunque pase el tiempo, el dolor de la pérdida, cuando se pone a doler, te sigue pareciendo igual de intenso.
~ Rosa Montero
El desamor es tópico, ridículo, monumentalmente exagerado. Pero duele
~ Rosa Montero
Consciousness - what we call our identitty- is always unstable, always at risk of sabotage from the unacceptable feelings of loss and desire which we have to repress into our unconscious in order to conform to the demands of culture.
~ Rosalind Minsky
Consciousness - what we call our identity- is always unstable, always at risk of sabotage from the unacceptable feelings of loss and desire which we have to repress into our unconscious in order to conform to the demands of culture.
~ Rosalind Minsky
As long as Mumma was alive, she knew that some small part of herself had remained a child, cherished and adored. Perhaps you never completely grew up until your mother died.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
I was not prepared to think of the people I had lost, or to speak of them, although we did, carefully, without letting their names loose in the wind that would reach their ears. We feared that they would hear us and never rest, come back out of pity for the loneliness we felt.
~ Louise Erdrich
And so, you see, her absence stopped time. What
~ Louise Erdrich
Why do the chimookomanag want us?" she growled. "They take all that makes us Anishinaabeg. Everything about us. First our land, then our trees. Now husbands, our wives, our children, our souls. Why do they want to capture every bit?
~ Louise Erdrich
Missing only the prefix. The ex.
~ Louise Erdrich
She was just glad he hadn't come back to life, which did make her sad. How sad it was not to be sad.
~ Louise Erdrich