Best loss & home Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era, a home, a job--is a creative act. It takes attention and patience and courage. But many of us do not know how to grieve. We were never taught, and we don't see examples of full-bodied grieving around us. Our culture favors the fast-food model of mourning--get over it quick and get back to work; affix the bandage of "closure" and move on.”

“when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life - I have always noticed that before it happens - this leaving, this parting - when we think about it beforehand we are overwhelmed with sadness at the loss to come. ... the most unbearable sense of loss, the worst homesickness of all, so I have found, is this loss and sickness we feel beforehand, before we ever leave home.”

People Thinking Feels Home Happens Found Loss Our Lives Sadness Worst Leaving Treasure Sickness Going Away Overwhelmed Unbearable Parting Homesickness His Loss

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.”

Persons Home Process Loss Particular Painful Violent Familiar Traditional Flight Permanent Occupation Refugee Rebirth Parting Close Friends Midwife Familiar Places

Author:Dervla Murphy

“It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.”

“Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.”

Years Home Loss Travel Guarantees Los Angeles

Author:Rex Reed

“Eventually we will learn that the loss of indivisible love is another of our necessary losses, that loving extends beyond the mother-child pair, that most of the love we receive in this world is love we will have to share--and that sharing begins at home, with our sibling rivals.”

World Children Home Mother Loss Love Is Share This World Pairs Rivals Sibling Rivalry Indivisible Sibling Rivalry Mother Child

Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother's kiss.”

World Heart Home School Mother Loss Boys Influence Son Kissing Economics Trade Lips Disappointment Limitation Manhood Controversy Bewildered Mother And Son

Author:Judith Ellen Foster

“[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.”

Home Moving Political Loss Military Degrees Distance Units Diminish Political Power Home Base

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Failure in one?s duty. Where is the greatest peace? In truth and righteousness. Who is the hero? The man who subdues his senses. Who is the best beloved? The faithful wife. What is wealth? Knowledge. What is the most perfect happiness? Staying at home.”

“On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or outer, are breaking down or are not working anymore. On a personal level, this often means the experience of loss of one kind or another: the death of a loved one, the end of a close relationship, loss of possessions, your home, status, or a breakdown of the external structures of your life that provided a sense of security.”

Kind Mean Ends Home Loss Levels Situation Security Evolution Crisis Structure Response Possession Loved Ones Death Of A Loved One Threatening Breaking Down Breakdown Close Relationship

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it.”

Source: Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith

“The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant way to the West.... And because they were lonely and perplexed, because they had all come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because they were all going to a mysterious new place, ... a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.”

“The future is flying home. That's the immediate future. But long-distance future, I plan on being back. I'm not going to end my time here with that loss.”

Long Ends Home Loss Plans Distance Flying My Time Long Distance

Author:Pete Sampras

“Evidently there is no need for delay, no need for further study, if the government takes a loss and Wall Street makes a profit, but it is absolutely necessary to delay if homeowners might have a chance to cut their mortgages and stay in their homes. This is wrong, and it is time to fight back!”

Ifs Needs Home Government Might Fighting Chance Loss Study Cutting Streets Wall Profit Delay Mortgage Homeowners

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“If I'm not touring I'd just be at home, just driving - I'm kind of at a loss for how that stuff works.”

Ifs Kind Home Stuff Loss Driving Touring

Author:Courtney Barnett

“There's something very noble about bringing home a paycheck to provide for oneself and one's family. However, there's so much more to work than just a paycheck. This is unfortunately a very common view which I believe accounts in part for the statistic that approximately 70% of people are disengaged at work. Think about the loss of meaning and productivity and the staggering economic implications of that statistic.”

People Thinking Believe Home I Believe Loss Views Common Economic Accounts Oneself Noble Productivity Implications Paychecks Staggering

Author:David Kim

“Whether low-income people are dealing with access to veteran's benefits, or a protective order to guard against domestic violence, or a way to guard against the loss of their home due to foreclosure and unscrupulous behavior by mortgage providers, there's no way they can afford a lawyer. And that's a serious problem. Because that erodes respect for law, it erodes the prospects for justice.”

People Problem Home Justice Loss Violence Serious Behavior Lawyer Domestic Violence Mortgage

Author:Martha Minow

“Global demand for dollars has supplanted demand for manufactured goods and services, resulting in multilateral trade deficits and loss of jobs at home.”

Home Loss Trade

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”

Source: James Madison's

“You can't go home again”

Inspirational Home Loss

Author:Thomas Wolfe

“Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.”

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.”

Mind May Persons Said Home Seems Lost Imagination Loss Possession Severe

Book:Mister Pip

Source: Mister Pip

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