Quotes & Sayings About Losing A Loved One Suddenly

It's easy to want to be an author. You see it in your mind with sun streaming through windows and a Siamese cat purring on an antique rug and a little pellet stove and somehow the bills are paid and there's wit and self-sufficiency and divine inspiration seeping through walls and pores. And then, in your mind, you skip ahead to a book launch party and more Siamese cats.

When you graduate from wanting to working, you say, "I am going to flesh out this idea and write the whole thing down, and rewrite it, and rewrite it again, and rewrite it unendingly, and I'll have no real assurance of when it'll be good enough, but at some point I'll pitch it to someone who will decide if I'm delusional or not." The optimism and the ego-bruising, unsexy work needed to follow through feels unending. — Kate Inglis

Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he leaned in to kiss her, she gave herself over to him. While he held her close, she ran her hands over his shoulders and back, feeling the strength in his arms. She knew he'd wanted more in their relationship than she'd been willing to offer, but here and now, she suddenly knew she had no other choice. There was only this moment, and it was theirs. — Nicholas Sparks

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result. — Byron Katie

People are like waves of the ocean, some cover you with tides of refreshment, whilst others drown you in floods of turmoil — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl. — A.A. Milne

Don't find the fault, find the remedy — Henry Ford

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies. — Richard M. Nixon

There is a story behind everything and every story is worth telling... — Anupam Sharma

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. — Mortimer Adler

It is called the real presence, not in an exclusive sense, as though other forms of presence were not real, but by reason of its excellence. It is the substantial presence by which Christ is made present without doubt, whole and entire, God and man. — Pope Paul VI

Most people don't know how to maximize their pleasure, Harry, they sexualize their pain. — Hanif Kureishi

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food. — Stephen King

Nothing is more practical than a good theory. — Kurt Lewin

Now it's my turn to ask you if you're real."
His eyes roamed over me as he nodded again. "I think I became real when I met you. — Raine Miller

There's an unspoken language when Gus and I play together. It's always been that way. We hear and feel music the same way. Communication flows back and forth through the music, one reacting to and feeding off the other. Words are spoken with eyes and subtle nods. — Kim Holden