At A Loss Of Words Quotes

#1. You have to loss something to gain something.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science.

{Describing Ernest Rutherford upon his death at age 66. Thomson, then 80 years old, was once his teacher.}

J.J. Thomson

#3. At times like this There's not a lot that words can do To help ease your pain and sense of loss And though it may be hard to believe right now Know that the pain will ease with time And you will look back at the memories of your dear one And smile and remember a life well lived and loved.

Margaret Jones

#4. The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

Sarah Addison Allen

#5. In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

Jodi Picoult

#6. How many losses does it take to stop a heart,
to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?

Dorianne Laux

#7. The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

Richard M. Nixon

#8. When he left us, he stole all the words.

Alex George

#9. I've come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I'm always at a loss for words.

Joe Coomer

#10. No matter how shitty it got, I could always look back and say, "At least I don't have my arm stuck up a cow's vagina." In fact, that's kind of become my life's motto. It's also what I say when I'm at a loss for words when talking to people who are grieving the loss of their grandparents.

Jenny Lawson

#11. Yukiko stared back at him. Slurred words and a soft stare, that stupefied, slack-jawed look slinking over his face and turning his skin to gray. An anesthetic, numbing the pain of well deserved loss.

Jay Kristoff

#12. Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

Louise Erdrich

#13. I'm normally not at a loss of words but I am a little taken aback by what you're wearing; it's a little different.

Joe Teti

#14. For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more completely unintelligible than the reasoning that is bred of tears.

Halldor Laxness

#15. by 1900, the tribes owned less than 2 percent of the land they once possessed. Entire languages had already disappeared - more than a loss of words, a loss of a way to look at the world.

Timothy Egan

#16. Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of ... words.

Julian Whitaker

#17. Why won't you look at me?" she murmurs.
He doesn't speak, seemingly at a loss for words.
"It's my scars." It comes out as barely a whisper.
Horror spasms across his face. "What? No," he says, a bit breathless. "You're beautiful. All of you.

Laura Kreitzer

#18. You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the ability to comfort with a soft touch. I didn't. Instead I had daggers and determination.
That would have to do.

Ann Aguirre

#19. A better mother would shape that anger into loss and then, at least, into the kind of memory of love one can sustain, but Vianne was too empty to be a good mother right now. She could think of no words that weren't a lie or useless.

Kristin Hannah

#20. I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#21. Her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [ ... ] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.

Bret Easton Ellis

#22. When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?

Guillermo Diaz