#loss

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious. ↗

— Francine Prose

#loss #death

Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

#atmosphere #big #commander #contaminated #critical

I recently read that 99% of dieters fail to maintain their weight loss and, given my past experience, that statistic feels true to me! ↗

— Celso Cukierkorn

#weight-loss #diet

Self-help isn't really self-help unless someone else is also helping you. We'd like to be that someone. ↗

— Kenneth Schwarz

#diet-self-help #dieting #dieting-self-help #self-help #self-help-books

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#european #generation #innocence #joined #life

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not. ↗

— Paul von Hindenburg

#been #book #eight #figures #five

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#conversation #eating #ever #flagging #introduce

Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily. ↗

— Ally Condie

#fight #loss #anger

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win. ↗

— LeBron James

#answer #awful #because #could #done

I realized, it is not the time that heals, but what we do within that time that creates positive change. ↗

— Diane Dettmann

#loss #renewal #spouse #widows #change