Suffering A Great Loss Quotes

#1. How we respond to tragedy is the hallmark of character. Suffering a great loss places us at a spiritual milepost. The wind of our souls can either sour and wither or rejoice and thrive.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#2. There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.

Anna Sui

#3. But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.

Anais Nin

#4. [Speaking about same-sex marriage] It's about familiarity, and I think the only reason they're uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they haven't come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that it's about love and that it is a civil right.

Jennifer Beals

#5. Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Bryant McGill

#6. Better a little hardship now than a great deal of loss or suffering forever, and a third alternative simply does not exist.

Randy Leedy

#7. Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.

Marianne Williamson

#8. Project X now, but it started as a Hunger Game.

Joe Budden

#9. Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.

John F. Kennedy

#10. Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness

Jocelyn Murray

#11. Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

Cecelia Ahern

#12. I have written this book quicker than any other," she notes in her diary, "[and] it is all a joke; & yet gay & quick reading I think; a writers holiday. I feel more and more sure that I will never write a novel again

Virginia Woolf

#13. Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people.

Terry Fox

#14. I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.

Henry Miller

#15. And there's always one special element. In 'There Goes My Baby,' it's the out-of-tune timpani. 'Stand by Me,' it's the bass pattern. Of course, all the elements come together to make a great record. But there's always one standout.

Jerry Leiber

#16. When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.

Eckhart Tolle

#17. You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters! seemed

Scott Westerfeld

#18. The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Lionel Trilling

#19. Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun.

Pete Docter

#20. If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden is as a person, if you don't have a sense of what al Qaeda, the organization, was on 9/11, 9/11 appears to be more or less inexplicable.

Peter Bergen

#21. Psychoanalysis is a new version of the ancient theme shared by all the great religions. The loss of illusion, the giving up of attachment to a false reality, the inevitability of suffering and expiation are all present in psychoanalysis. Every person who seeks analysis is on a personal pilgrimage.

Margaret Arden

#22. I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income.

Bernie Sanders

#23. The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.

Michael Moore