Top 82 Quotes About A Loss For Words
#1. So ... " Jack clears his throat. "We ... "
Is Jack Coombs at a loss for words? I guess we don't have to worry about the performance since the world is clearly going to end.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#3. 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
#4. I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
Talib Kweli
#5. I'm rarely at a loss for words outside the library. But within its walls I'm required to form sentences that no logical person should ever have to utter, for instance, You can't sleep on the floor at the library under your blanket.
Josh Hanagarne
#6. 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
#7. More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.
Paula McLain
#8. I've never been so star struck in my life as when I met President Obama and Bill Clinton ... and at the same time, no less! I'm not one to be at a loss for words, and that was a moment when I really was speechless. It was a big, big night.
Megan Hilty
#9. Juliana was momentarily at a loss for words, a strange condition for her. It didn't last long.
Cindy Anstey
#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. I've come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I'm always at a loss for words.
Joe Coomer
#12. 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
#13. He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.
Garrison Keillor
#14. At 9:15 on Thursday morning, June 4, while Jordan Delreese was bludgeoning his two young children to death, I was sitting in Dr. Hamburger's consulting room at the Sunny Isles Geriatric Clinic with my father, who was just then at a loss for words.
John Dufresne
#15. You will live in me always. Your words, your heart, your soul are all part of me. My heart is full of your memories. Thank you for the gift of your life. I will never forget you.
Amy Eldon
#16. God is not at a loss when He moves to bring us back to Himself. He can woo or whip. He can draw or drive. He can work rapidly or slowly, as He pleases. In other words, He is free to be God! And in His own way, at His own pace, He brings us back.
Tom Wells
#17. 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
#18. Too young to explain in words, the girl's face was old enough to show the loss that was that name.
Anthony Marra
#19. Gen, with his genius for languages, was often at a loss for what to say when left with only his own words.
Ann Patchett
#20. Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21. 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
#22. Taking your language into my soul, feeling it separate from sentences to words burning with flight, 'til all I have left are meaningless letters pushing fire through my veins. Words can draw blood if you're very, very careful. - Broken Places
Rachel Thompson
#23. The master was the light of her life. And I always says that the ones who quarrels takes the loss the hardest in the end. It's regrets, isn't it? All they didn't say or do. She'll feel it more than the rest, mark my words
Gaynor Arnold
#24. There are words like 'orphan', 'widow' and 'widower' in all languages. But there is no word in any language to describe a parent who loses a child. How does one describe the pain of 'ultimate bereavement'! (Page 50)
Neena Verma
#25. The Prayer that is answered is not of many words, but of Oneness.
Vivian Amis
#26. In other words, I was a moderately happy penguin who was occasionally attacked by sadness.
Takuji Ichikawa
#28. Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other
Zig Ziglar
#29. At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.
Arthur Golden
#30. Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.
Mark Slouka
#31. I heard of a man
who says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
women give themselves to him.
If I am dumb beside your body
while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips
it is because I hear a man climb stairs
and clear his throat outside our door.
Leonard Cohen
#33. No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.
Kristin Hannah
#34. Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality
Brenda Perlin
#35. It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve.
Martha Beck
#36. You want me to paint you?' Genna spoke up raising an eyebrow of displeasure.
'All of me.' James bowed his head to Genevieve and whispered the words slowly.
Tan Redding
#37. Hearing my brother's words coming out of Henry, this stranger in a strange town, made me feel wild with all the loss - wild and wired with no place to put those feelings.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#38. Loss is a notion. No more than a thought. Which one forms or one doesn't. With words. Such that one cannot lose, nor ever say he has lost, what he does not permit to exist in his mind.
Taiye Selasi
#39. We're not words, Henry, we're people.
Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#40. You were afraid of me? Don't you meet with the Fallen in Sheol?"
"Yes, but none of them had ever stolen my heart nor left me without words to ponder its loss.
Amy A. Bartol
#41. Sorry doesn't make anything better. It's just a word to fill the space of a loss of words.
Shari J. Ryan
#42. The things left unsaid to people we care about, and the void those unspoken words leave, often have more impact than what is said.
Tyler Knight
#43. There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.
Victoria Alexander
#44. He makes me turn,
he makes me toss;
his words mean mine
are at a loss.
Lang Leav
#45. 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
#46. The death of their two children isn't the erasure of two beings. It is the loss of God and the skies, it is the loss of the past and the future, of all their small-voiced words and their hearts.
A.S. Patric
#47. A Conceit
Give me your hand
Make room for me
to lead and follow
you
beyond this rage of poetry.
Let others have
the privacy of
touching words
and love of loss
of love.
For me
Give me your hand.
Maya Angelou
#48. 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
#50. 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
#51. I didn't lose anyone, for everyone that I lost was never really a loss, unless it was death well then I had to have words with God.
Nikki Rowe
#52. This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.
Dana Gioia
#53. All action must be performed with detachment. Regard pain, pleasure; gain, loss; victory, defeat as equal. Battle for battle's sake with your mind completely on what you must do. With this knowledge there is no waster even in the first attempt. There are no impediments.
Meera Uberoi
#54. The balance of life; every loss is a gain. And every gain is a loss.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#55. In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic conundrums, kaleidoscopic comedies, puzzlements, certain and uncertain loves and losses.
Susan Howe
#56. Adults have
the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct.
When we "grow up" we gain this experience and knowledge, but we lose our innocence and
sense of wonder. In other words, the price we pay for growing up is a permanent sense of
loss.
Alberto Alvaro Rios
#57. 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
#58. You used words, discarding them meaninglessly, without thinking, whereas I thought they held meaning. I found what you will never see: that my love resides on the other side of words. - Broken Places
Rachel Thompson
#59. Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.
Jessica Brody
#62. Raw anguish slithers through my brittle bones as the deathly call rots the air. Who murdered you old friend? The forest has no words to identify the hand, only erratic echo.
H.S. Crow
#63. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
William Shakespeare
#64. It is hard to write it in words that I can read, that re-establishes the fact that has been haunting me for the past one year.
Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary
#66. Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss.
Seanan McGuire
#67. Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages seldom disappointed him and they never died.
Dan Groat
#68. 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
#69. Ravenpaw might have made a fine warrior. His death has come too soon, and his loss will be felt by many of us for a long time." Empty words! thought Firepaw bitterly. What
Erin Hunter
#70. I knew a girl, once, immortal like me-"
"And she was with someone mortal?" said Alec. "What happened?"
"He died," Magnus said. There was a finality to the way he said it that spoke of a deeper grief than words could paint.
Cassandra Clare
#71. Seems like I'm in a dream. Prince dead at 57. There are no words to describe this loss.
Sharon Osbourne
#72. 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
#73. Damn it, I'm angry now. I do believe life is loss, I do, but my suffering-to-words-ratio was out of control: lying around composing nothing but these - righteous arias, month after month, these tawdry special pleas.
Gwendoline Riley
#74. When he left us, he stole all the words.
Alex George
#75. Liv grabbed the cookie nearest her and broke it open.
"It's up to you to make your happy ending."
Liv stared at it a moment, rereading the words. Did it mean life? Because if it did, then Liv disagreed. Sometimes life was downright unfair. Bad things happened to good people.
Danika Stone
#76. I was, er, twirling," I said. His lips twitched. "I cannot imagine it. You must demonstrate for me." I glared at him. "I certainly will not. It was not meant for an audience. It was just something I did because ... " I waved my hand around, at a complete loss for words.
Julianne Donaldson
#77. How many losses does it take to stop a heart,
to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?
Dorianne Laux
#78. In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.
Jodi Picoult
#79. She was convinced a word existed, a noun, that meant the loss of feelings for someone who was formerly loved - a word for the act of falling out of love. I said I couldn't think of it. It wasn't in the dictionary either, not the one she wanted.
Olivia Sudjic
#80. There are no words precise enough to describe how wide and empty the world is when you lose someone that matters to you as much as Penny did to me.
Bill Clegg
#81. It was a phone call she didn't want to make. She didn't want to hurt him. Whatever words she gave him, it would take being a daddy away from him.
Crissi Langwell
#82. The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
Sarah Addison Allen
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