A Personal Loss And Grief Quotes

#1. Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.

Jim Rohn

#2. There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

Plutarch

#3. The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

Robert Kennedy

#4. There shall be in the church a fleshly seed of Abraham and a spiritual; a Cain and an Abel; an Ishmael and an Isaac; an Esau and a Jacob; as I have said, a worker and a believer; a great multitude of them that be called, and a small flock of them that be elect and chosen.31

Steven J. Lawson

#5. But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

Angela Thirkell

#6. She sacrificed her life to make things right," Mitchell grumbled. "She[Silena Beuregard] was a hero

Rick Riordan

#7. I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.

Gary Shteyngart

#8. Ink is the transcript of thought.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#9. The process of grief and loss is as unique as your personal DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid); no two individuals will have the same experiences or relationship to grief.

Asa Don Brown

#10. Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you ... increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

Susan B. Anthony

#11. Punk gave me the strength to think, "Yeah, you can stand up and be counted, and do what you want in life, and not be hoodwinked by it all," in a simple, very general sweeping way.

Steve Diggle

#12. American tax dollars spent on education are meant to support students, not support aggressive, deceptive, and misleading marketing campaigns by certain for-profit education companies.

Sherrod Brown

#13. Death had two meanings - the loss of resources to society and the personal grief of the few who cared. Fersonne's value was less than that of one cargo, and this time, I was one of the few who cared, and I wanted there to be some meaning

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#14. The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.

Sol Luckman

#15. There are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free! ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#16. Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. I was 'led' to read The Shack by Wm Paul Young after the sudden & unexpected death of my fiance', Marina DeAngelo in July of 2012. It helped me as it has millions of people with the trauma and grief associated with the great personal loss of a loved one."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#18. Now, what's stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history.

Laurie Perez

#19. I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.

Charles De Gaulle

#20. If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Noam Chomsky

#21. I want to believe in the fairy tale.

Monica Murphy