Quotes About Dealing With Loss

#1. Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality.

Francesca Gregorini

#2. Dealing with loss and heartache doesn't make you stronger. It only makes people think you are.

Kathy Lette

#3. What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.

Dayananda Saraswati

#4. Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe
they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

Miguel Ruiz

#5. Why do I feel like love and irritation go hand in hand with you?

Colleen Hoover

#6. We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function , day in, day out. Immune to others' pain and loss.

Neil Gaiman

#7. I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogged down so much with all of that, with domestic stories and relationships and a woman dealing with the loss of her husband.

Miguel Syjuco

#8. Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

Les Brown

#9. Having a long-term plan--and not casting it aside--is the key to dealing with our fear of loss (loss aversion).

Ori Brafman

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Jack Canfield

#11. Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore.

Dianna Hardy

#12. I went to prison, I paid my bill.

George Michael

#13. Not a perfect soul, I am perfecting. Not a human being, I am a human becoming.

Normandi Ellis

#14. I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe.
It was haunted.
The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.

D.J. MacHale

#15. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.

Pat Riley

#16. Things that scare me are the loss of control, dealing with the unknown and the unseen. Something that's not supposed to be there and you don't know where it came from, or what it wants from you, or how to defend yourself against it. That's the root of the things I find scary.

Oren Peli

#17. We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#18. Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.

Darin Strauss

#19. Shed the tears.
Shed the blame and guilt too.
So that your heart mends and heals.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#20. If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours.
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about dealing with the loss of her mother

Erica Bauermeister

#22. By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

Homer

#23. It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.

David Souter

#24. Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy.
How are you dealing with your awful debility,
lessened utility and loss of mobility?

John Walter Bratton