“On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.” PeopleKnowsMenChildrenWarWholeHouseStrongLossWhitePoorGriefFateFrontsColdMetsHundredBraveCrowdsCivil WarHopelessAffectedWhite HouseWetDiminishWeepingAvenuesBrave ManBenefactorsWailing Author:Gideon Welles
“His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.” BelieveHandsEyeHateI BelieveLossFateDogMissingMinesCatNosesGrievingContemptTailsFoe Author:William Watson
“There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization - "dustsceawung," meaning contemplation of dust. It is a true image of the Anglo-Saxon mind, or at least an echo of that consciousness which considered transcience and loss to be part of the human estate; it was a world in which life was uncertain and the principal diety was fate or destiny or "wyrd."” WorldMindHumansLossConsciousnessDestinyFateCivilizationDustContemplationPrincipalEchoesUncertainEstatesAnglo SaxonOld English Author:Peter Ackroyd
“Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.” ThinkingHumansSeemsHappensHuman BeingsLossSpaceFateMediaMissingReadyOffenseLimbsParkingParking Space Book:Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
“I fear that our loss of a sense of connection with, and duties to, each other leaves us unable to effectively address growing inequality and the bitter antagonism between different communities in American society. We've been at our best when we've felt in significant degree that our fates bound up with each other, where we've had a very inclusive sense of the other, and that's now very much not the case.” DifferentCommunityLossFateDutySignificantBitterInequality Author:David Wong
“But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.” GivingHumansMatterPainLossFateProtectAdulthoodWhat MattersBeing HumanProtect You Author:Cynthia Leitich Smith
“An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.” KnowsMenYearsMindEndsCountryLawHateFightingLossPoorBehindsFateDutyBalanceWasteCrossesLonelyBreathsCloudsCrowdsDelightThis LifeImpulseCheerBalancedCountrymenTumultAirmen Author:William Butler Yeats