Quotes About Experiencing Loss

#1. If you feel empty, you are right on the verge of God's greatest blessing. Just seek His face. Should you be desperate and hurting and experiencing loss, remember that the Lord lifts up the downcast and casts down the proud. He will in His own good time turn your mourning into joy.

Timothy E. Crosby

#2. I'm not saying that experiencing loss is why I can cope with darker worlds - I'm not saying that for a second - but I think it opens up a side of you in terms of work that wouldn't be as accessible had that stuff not happened.

Jamie Dornan

#3. Shamans say that when people get sick, they're experiencing soul loss. And I didn't know what to do to regain my soul.

Becky Stark

#4. What was unusual was that this brick appeared new and was covered in spray paint.

Michael Harling

#5. Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors.

Debbie Macomber

#6. I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.

Anderson Cooper

#7. The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written.

David Burnett

#8. The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.

S. Jay Olshansky

#9. Then again, that's how the most successful predators work, she thinks ruefully. We stumble into their traps and do their work for them while we're busy getting on with the business of living.

Kimberly Morgan

#10. I certainly wasn't the kind of kid that grew up collecting bugs and spiders.

Cheryl Hayashi

#11. But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

Parminder Nagra

#12. I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#13. A flower teaches us how to love.

Debasish Mridha

#14. In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

Alan Alda

#15. Never let anyone tell you that something is impossible.

Monty Oum

#16. Frankly, people don't make sense to me.

Jodi Picoult

#17. Past experiences are effluvial.
Burn them.
The now is important.

Sandra Harner

#18. Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

William J. Clinton

#19. Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.

Frederick Lenz

#20. Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

John Galsworthy

#21. Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and increasing constraint on future human action consciously and slowly while realizing that they are likely to continue for generations after one is gone.

Frederick Buell

#22. Flowers are almost perfect; their only flaw is that they are weak; they can't protect themselves against the evil!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else
all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.

Lauren DeStefano

#24. Time as hunger.
Time passing and gazing.
Time as perseverance.
Mountain time.
Time as paper folded to look like a mountain.
Time compared to the wild fantastic silence of stars.

Anne Carson

#25. I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.

Dan Phillips

#26. In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored and denigrated, and experiencing development with a great sense of trauma, loss and social disconnectedness.

James Wolfensohn