Losing Quotes
2661 Losing quotes by 1801 unique authors
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No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us
— Simon R. Green
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The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion,…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you…
— John Irving
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Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what…
— Haruki Murakami
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I told him that I loved him and that I'd always love him and I felt like a child who throws a centavo into a…
— Colum McCann
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I’m lucky that I’m afraid of losing something
— Ai Yazawa
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Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
— Mitch Albom
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The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest…
— Beatrice Sparks
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Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
— C.S. Lewis
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He was a super shiny boy and I liked the shape of him. Under the blanket. In the shower. I liked his shadow on the…
— Emma Forrest
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So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.
— John Milton
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Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?" She laughed and shook her head. "No. Too much power. No one could handle all…
— Richelle Mead
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For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events…
— Stefan Zweig
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You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.
— Audrey Niffenegger
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It is the poor man who clenches so tightly to the gold he is given - for fear of losing it. The man of wealth…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak…
— Italo Calvino
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Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.
— John Flanagan
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I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to…
— Deb Caletti
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Like a tree losing its leaves. I forget even the thing I was thinking.
— Jenny Downham
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My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.
— Suzanne Collins
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And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die.…
— Suzanne Collins
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Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you…
— Suzanne Collins
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