“Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.” KnowsJobsLossMinesPoetMake Sense Author:Dan Quisenberry
“I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs.” KnowsLossHappenedDrinkDrugFreakArrowsControl Freak Author:George Saunders
“Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.” IfsKnowsNeedsHumansHardEnoughShowsBodyLossBrokenDegreesStrongerFilledBonesMedicalHolesCracksReplacedHuman BodyHealedHealed You Book:Come Home: A Novel Source: Come Home: A Novel
“The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.” KnowsFormNationsLossIdentityDefeatContemporaryInevitableColonizationNational Identity Author:Slobodan Milosević
“Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.” PeopleKnowsYearsStillsRealityLossSpaceRecordsGraceRelationIncludingFlyingSettingSettingsPreparationDramaticStringsBoresApplauseAstronautWrong ThingsSprintUnwaveringShowy Author:Chris Hadfield
“I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.” KnowsTermMemoriesLossBowlsChampionshipShort TermSuper BowlFadingMemory LossShort Term Memory Author:Pat Bowlen