Alain de Botton Quotes, Loss Quotes, Frustration Quotes

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

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O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

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Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

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LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election".

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Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

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It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

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To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-.

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Potatoes have such a high GI rating; it's almost the same as eating table sugar.

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Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

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Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to; And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.

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When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

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"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

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I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.

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In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

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A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

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So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

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