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“For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!”

Said Two Country Loss Environment Generations Sky Missing Summer Spring Blue Wings Soil Visible Embodiment Kindred Dwellers Bluebird

Book:Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

Source: Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

“The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.”

“This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.”

Loss Support Missing Grateful Contribution Airline Personal Loss Deepest Sympathy

Author:Gerard Arpey

“If we cant face our losses, we cant be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.”

People Ifs Made Faces Loss Cutting Missing Aspect Cant Aspects Of Life

Author:Krista Tippett

“Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get some much more airplay, as if their intensity gives them more value, but whereas those emotions come in violent bursts and are gone again, the gnawing ache of loss has to be simply endured. It's like background noise, it's always there, it never goes away. You just have to try to block it out, distract yourself, hope that tomorrow the hole they left behind has grown a little smaller.”

“I am deeply saddened by the tragic loss of my dear friend Ronni Chasen. I have had the honor of working with her for over 15 years. She was one of a kind. I loved her. I miss her.”

Years Kind Loss Missing Honor Dear Tragic Dear Friend Saddened One Of A Kind Tragic Loss

Author:Diane Warren

“Most organizations only focus on WHAT they do and HOW they do it - tactics and strategies - and they aren't even aware that this thing called the WHY exists. Focusing on only two pieces of a three piece puzzle leaves an organization, or a career, inherently out of balance. Being out of balance, only operating on two of the three pieces, shows up in different ways - increased stress, loss of passion, obsession with what your competition is doing, being forced to play the price game, trouble differentiating. These are all signs that the WHY is missing.”

“Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.”

Loss Missing Tragedy

Book:Everybody's Got Something

Source: Everybody's Got Something

“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.”

Believe Hands Eye Hate I Believe Loss Fate Dog Missing Mines Cat Noses Grieving Contempt Tails Foe

Author:William Watson

“I basically learned that you must get out of your losses immediately. It's not merely a matter of how much you can afford to risk on a given trade, but you also have to consider how many potential future winners you might miss because of the effect of the larger loss on your mental attitude and trading size.”

Matter Might Given Loss Attitude Risk Effects Missing Trade Size Winner Trading Mental Attitude Your Loss

Author:Randy McKay

“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.”

Thinking Humans Seems Happens Human Beings Loss Space Fate Media Missing Ready Offense Limbs Parking Parking Space

Book:Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

“She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.”

Running Loss Advice Missing Eating Bigger Sensible Sage Weight Loss Dieting Muppet Piggy Miss Piggy

Book:The Susan Donovan Collection: The Kept Woman, Knock Me Off My Feet, and He Loves Lucy

Source: The Susan Donovan Collection: The Kept Woman, Knock Me Off My Feet, and He Loves Lucy

“It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, that you've grieved and it's over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you've lost that person all over again.”

People Thinking Feels Littles Persons Lost Loss Missing Like You Accepted Little Things

Author:Rachel Hawkins

“I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.”

Source: I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence

“When we don't get that escape from our work selves, I think we feel its absence on a deep, almost primal level. Leisure is uncommodified, unoccupied time where we get to be truly free, so feeling bad about missing the weekend isn't just, "Damn, I didn't make it to the mall!" It's a profound loss.”

Thinking Feelings Loss Missing Profound Absence Weekend Feeling Bad

Author:Katrina Onstad

“A few years ago, the Bose Acoustics Corporation had a new product, the Bose Wave Music System. And their ad campaign for it was not successful until they changed one thing. At the top of the ad they said, "Hear what you've been missing." And that caused the skyrocketing of the interest in purchasing of the product. Why? Because with something new, people are uncertain, and when they are uncertain, they want to avoid losses.”

People Interest Loss Successful Missing Changed Wave Something New

Author:Robert Cialdini

“Once a big loss has happened it is part of the picture forever. Not something you "get over." While each loss has felt specific, one thing I miss with each loss is entirely selfish, I miss the way a particular person saw me, understood me. But part of the challenge of being alive is to remain curious in any circumstance and this has helped me with grief. I want to feel all the contours and contradictions of living.”

Challenges Loss Grief Forever Missing Circumstances Selfish Curious Contradiction

Author:Victoria Redel

“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

“Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

“But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? In this dark period of loss, did I need any justification for learning Italian other than that it was the only thing I could imagine bringing me any pleasure right now?”

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.”

Trying Stills Sometimes Feelings Artist Song Loss Space Cutting Missing Silent Following Holes Abandoned Loved Ones Time And Space Full Life Loss Of A Loved One Adrift Pascal Hissing

Author:Bono

“You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”

“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”

Knows Inspirational Should Enough Realizing Loss Missing Huge Absence Holes Missing Someone Evermore

Book:The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland

Source: The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland

“I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.”

“He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.”

Feels Kind Enough Young Loss Five Worst Missing Youth Happenings Twenties Twenty Five Slipping Slipping Away

Book:Thin Skin

Source: Thin Skin

“Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)”

Heart Stills Names Left Loss Behinds Missing Listening Pages Wide Left Behind Missing Someone

Book:The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

“I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.”

Feels Body Next Loss Minutes Missing Arms Sick Sensations Throwing One Minute Spleen Throwing Up

Book:Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir

“You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the ability to comfort with a soft touch. I didn't. Instead I had daggers and determination. That would have to do.”

Loss Ability Missing Ready Comfort Determination Missing Someone Daggers Breeders

Book:The Razorland Trilogy

Source: The Razorland Trilogy

“Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.”

Mother Hurt Loss Grief Missing Sad Hearing Chests Needles Missing Someone

Author:Veronica Roth

“Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't been a weight-loss tactic. I'd just been too busy bumping from crisis to crisis. Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.”

Running Girl Loss Wonder Missing Goes On Exercise Sick Weight Crisis Busy Likes Diets Meals Plus Tactics Weight Loss Too Busy Avoidance Starvation Sookie Stackhouse

Author:Charlaine Harris

“Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.”