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Loss Quotes by Joan Didion
- Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is…
- California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled…
- we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we…
- Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment…
More Loss Quotes
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to… — Gerard Arpey
- Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius
- What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of… — Michele Bachmann
- When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. — Francis Bacon
- Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be… — Francis Bacon
- Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little… — Russell Baker
- Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. — Honore de Balzac
- We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. — James M. Barrie
- If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times… — Bernard Baruch
- Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs… — Saint Basil
- Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we… — Joseph Addison