Famous quotes containing the word loss:
“If but some vengeful god would call to me
From up the sky, and laugh: Thou suffering thing,
Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,
That thy loves loss is my hates profiting!”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)
“Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, aint-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives onour lost narcissism lives onin our ego ideal.”
—Judith Viorst (20th century)
“No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)