#losing

Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his." "And have you learned anything from our literary parallel?" "Not really, I keep thinking that she would do it all over again if there were a chance...a chance that it could go right. Even if 99 times out of a 100 the story ends badly, it's worth it if only once she gets a happy ending. ↗

— Cora Carmack

#chance-and-fortune #desire #garrick #guilt #hope

I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't. ↗

— Cora Carmack

#desires #losing-it #repression #unrequited-love #love

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#losing #winning #humor

You know, I've wondered if it's more painful to lose someone you love to death or to lose someone you love because she no longer loves you back." "I don't know," I said. "On the surface, it seems an easy question. It should be so much easier to lose someone who doesn't love you, because why would you want to be with someone who doesn't want you? But rejection's not an east road. A part of you always wonders what makes you so unlovable. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#love #death

During a moment of silence I close my eyes tight and let the birds take me. When I opened my eyes I saw her. ↗

— Jonathan Hull

#losing-julia #love-at-first-sight #love

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#bring #closing #comfort #conversely #door

God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond. ↗

— Johnnie Dent Jr.

#inspirational #perserverance #stick-to-itiveness #stick-to-your-gut #winning-and-losing

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#civil #civil servants #crisis #decades #develop

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it. ↗

— Tim Allen

#father #fears #go #gotten #i

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#bambi #because #children #effect #losing