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Quotes About Loss

But in a world turned upside down, things I thought were mine and mine alone can be taken away much more easily than I would have imagined.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
The real me is disappearing as we speak. Slowly but surely being sucked into thin air.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
And what will happen if words disappear?" I
~ Y?ko Ogawa
Döden försvann efter hand tillsammans med tiden allt längre bort i fjärran, och minnet var det enda som blev kvar, minnet som är det allra mest värdefulla vi har.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
unable to rid herself of her memories. Poor thing.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
I sometimes wonder what was disappeared first—among all the things that have vanished from the island.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
When you lost your voice, you lost the ability to make sense of yourself.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more.
~ Y?ko Tawada
To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I would rather not go on.
~ Yann Martel
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
~ Yann Martel
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart.
~ Yann Martel
And yet we were very much alike; we'd lost our souls, and we were ready to destroy others.
~ Yasmina Khadra
The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.
~ Yasmina Khadra
Somewhere it is written that I was born to leave my home, to constantly leave, each time leaving a part of me behind.
~ Yasmina Khadra
What's a house when you've lost a country?' she says with a sigh.
~ Yasmina Khadra
Thy can take everything you own --your property, your best years, all your joys, all your good works, everything down to your last shirt --but you'll always have your dreams, so you can reinvent your stolen world.
~ Yasmina Khadra
They can take everything you own --your property, your best years, all your joys, all your good works, everything down to your last shirt-- but you'll always have your dreams, so you can reinvent your stolen world.
~ Yasmina Khadra
The can take everything you own- your property, your best years, all your joys, all your good works, everything down to your last shirt- but you'll always have your dreams, so you can reinvent your stolen world.
~ Yasmina Khadra
On peut tout te prendre ; tes biens, tes plus belles années, l'ensemble de tes joies, et l'ensemble de tes mérites, jusqu'à ta dernière chemise – il te restera toujours tes rêves pour réinventer le monde que l'on t'a confisqué.
~ Yasmina Khadra
La guerre.. le succube de la mort, la concubine féconde du malheur.
~ Yasmina Khadra
I'll never understand why the survivors of a tragedy feel compelled to make people believe they're more to be pitied than the ones who didn't make it.
~ Yasmina Khadra
Moshen has gradually stopped dreaming. The light of his conscience has gone out.
~ Yasmina Khadra
Ton visage est le seul soleil qui me reste
~ Yasmina Khadra
Timpul se oprise pentru noi. Bineinteles, ziua continua sa fuga de noapte si seara sa ucida aurorele, dar,in ceea ce ne privea, lucrurile ajunsesera la capatul lor. O noua pagina se deschidea si noi nu figuram acolo. Ratacesc printre umbre si cenusa, de parca as fi o fantoma captive in ruinele mele. Eram convins ca imi pierdusem mintile.
~ Yasmina Khadra