Quotes About Loss

We could not bring back the Golden Age. Indeed we were now paying the price of having enjoyed one.

Corum stared at the mired hand, now once again his. "It is nothing," he murmured. "I have killed my friend.

Goodbye, Queen. You have lost your champion now." I jumped. I landed in a rosebush that ripped at my skin

When I think of Tomodachi, I think of your mother. Your mother, she too lose her baby. She lose you. That very sad thing for her. Maybe she come looking, and she not find you. You not there when she come. She think you dead for ever. But she see you in her mind. Now as I speak maybe she see you in her mind. You always there. I know. I have son too. I have Michiya. He always in my head. Like Kimi. They dead for sure, but they in my head. They in my head forever.

Why does this war have to destroy anything and everything that's fine and beautiful?

The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion

Seas move away, why not lovers? The harbours of Ephesus, the rivers of Heraclitus disappear and are replaced by estuaries of silt. The wife of Candaules becomes the wife of Gyges. Libraries burn.

As if this collection of things is what she is. So we fall in love with ghosts.

I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.

I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself.

For when people leave our company in our time we are never certain of seeing them again, or seeing them unaltered.

But when we are searching for an example of what we no longer have, we see it everywhere.

The deepest sorrow, he thought. Where the only way to survive is to excavate everything.

Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart.

A memoir is the lost inheritance.

Every river they came to was bridge-less, as if its name had been erased, as if the sky were starless, homes doorless.

Soldiers were coming in with just bits of their bodies, falling in love with me for an hour and then dying.

Wherever Hana is now, in the future, she is aware of the line of movement Kip's body followed out of her life. Her mind repeats it. The path he slammed through among them. When he turned into a stone of silence in their midst. She recalls everything of that August day— what the sky was like, the objects on the table in front of her going dark under the thunder.

Ich bin ein Mensch mit kaltem Herzen. Wenn ich mit einem großen Kummer zu tun habe, errichte ich Barrieren, damit das Gefühl des Verlusts nicht zu tief, nicht zu weit eindringen kann. Sofort gibt es eine Mauer, die uneinnehmbar ist. (S. 161)

In nearly every house, in nearly every family, there was knowledge of someone's murder or abduction by one side or another

I find that her hearing is quite a lot worse and that she has suffered a loss of confidence in herself, which it will be very hard to replace.

Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss.

Carhart-Harris suspects that the loss of a clear distinction between subject and object might help explain another feature of the mystical experience: the fact that the insights it sponsors are felt to be objectively true—revealed truths rather than plain old insights. It could be that in order to judge an insight as merely subjective, one person's opinion, you must first have a sense of subjectivity. Which is precisely what the mystic on psychedelics has lost.

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.