Quotes About Ambiguous Loss

#1. Ambiguous loss is considered by social scientists to be one of the most stressful kinds of loss owing to its nature: it is the loss that happens without possibility for closure.

Sonya Lea

#2. It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

Gregory Bateson

#3. Things, however, rarely happened the way you understood them. Mostly they just sort of drove up alongside what you thought was the case and then moved randomly down some other way.

Lorrie Moore

#4. Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving.

Bryant McGill

#5. Pritchard was lonely, and like most lonely souls, he saw happy couples everywhere.

Eleanor Catton

#6. My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.

David Steinberg

#7. Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

Benny Goodman

#8. Sometimes I lose my temper.

Noam Chomsky