Quotes About Sudden Loss

#1. Our lives are scattered throughout with periods of unbelonging; in childhood, of course, and adolescence; but in adulthood too, when sudden loss (or gain) forces us to reassess things we believe immutable.

Clive Barker

#2. The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.

Frank Beddor

#3. The ideal way to live would be always to treat each day, each encounter with loved ones, as one's last. Only thus could one avoid the endless self-reproach, self-recrimination, with which so many flagellate themselves after a sudden loss.

Dorothy Simpson

#4. Should we now explain to UK couples who plan a family that stopping at two children, or at least having one less than first intended, is the simplest and biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet for our grandchildren?

John Guillebaud

#5. Well Mike, I'm abnormal.

Frank Zappa

#6. For me, it's not about sacking the quarterback. It's about changing the course of the game. It's causing a crucial fumble at a crucial time. It's making a tackle for a loss when the opposing team needs to gain one or two yards for the first down. I look at myself as a sudden-impact player.

Simeon Rice

#7. Only a lover of animals will understand the sudden feeling of loss, of emptiness, and the intuitive bond which exists between man and dog, has always existed from the beginning and will, please God, continue to the end.

Daphne Du Maurier

#8. Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it.

Jonathan Stroud

#9. I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

Winston Churchill

#10. I don't know what makes people start wanting each other any more than I know what makes it stop all of a sudden. I just know that when you lose it once, you'll never take it for granted again

Sue Merrell

#11. The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.

Jerry Van Amerongen

#12. Her anxiety was turning her usually sunny disposition into something less than hospitable. "As

Amanda Forester

#13. Rest, heal. I'll come by again soon. Maybe she was scared at what was being asked of her, but if Izak could smile through his agony, she'd damn well find the guts to be what he needed her to be.

Nalini Singh

#14. I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

David Schwimmer

#15. Her nerves tingled with a sudden alarm. The pattern didn't speak of love and commitment to her; there was something else there, something darker, something that spoke of control and submission, of loss and darkness.

Cassandra Clare

#16. If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting.

Martha Beck

#17. Grief is always sudden as winter, no matter how long the autumn.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#18. I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.

Jeanette Winterson

#19. People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

Richard Stallman

#20. The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

Dan Bartlett

#21. What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of sorrow, any one of which alone would have wrenched us from our fragile orbits around each other.

Paul Harding

#22. My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#23. I was 'led' to read The Shack by Wm Paul Young after the sudden & unexpected death of my fiance', Marina DeAngelo in July of 2012. It helped me as it has millions of people with the trauma and grief associated with the great personal loss of a loved one."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#24. I'm really all right, she would think, carefully, lightly, as she pulled the key from the ignition, trying not to examine the sensation too closely or lose it with any sudden movement, as if it were a thin-filmed shiny bubble poised in her chest.

Tessa Hadley

#25. Yeah, probably. Homicide: Our day starts when yours ends. Permanently." "You should sew that on a pillow.

J.D. Robb

#26. Life is mundane, and does not need a weird explanation.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#27. I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

Red Smith

#28. You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.

Brett Favre

#29. You may have gotten off to a rough start in life. You may have had more than your share of unfair things happen, but it's not how you start that counts. It's how you finish." ****

Don Pasco