#loss

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #loss




Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.


M. John Harrison


#memory #beauty

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.


Thomas Malory


#bring #come #every #forth #fruit

Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.


Katherine Owen


#heroine-s-journey #loss #love #romance #death

Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.


Michael McCaul


#child #children #closer #cure #day

President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.


Robert McFarlane


#any #concerned #deeply #emotionally #especially

Little Joe was still behind him. Eli could feel it. He wanted to look back, but he couldn’t. The tears were too close. If he were Fancy, he’d turn around and kick and buck and moo and do just about anything to keep his calf near. But Eli wasn’t Fancy; he was a farmer.


Sandra Neil Wallace


#animals #author-sandra-neil-wallace #coming-of-age #cows #farm-life

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.


Marilyn Monroe


#belonging #demanded #few #freedom #i

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.


Pervez Musharraf


#dead #doubt #families #greater #i

Her mother leaned in. “She calls him ‘Colossus.’Now what do you think that is for?” “I’m sure she’s fine—” “Not if she is with Colossus. She asked me last week if I could get her birth control.” “Okay, okay. What do you want me to do?” “I want you to find that campground and bring your sister home.”.... “Fine.” “You’re going to go now?” “Do I have any choice? It’s either that or let Lucy get impregnated by the Colossus, right?


Jessica Clare


#humor #home

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.


Ernest Hemingway


#flight #life #loss #nostalgia #age