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Quotes about Loss

When life makes us face difficult situations—such as a personal loss—we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.

Paulo Coelho : author of The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
 
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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Adams Keller : American writer & lecturer, blind & deaf
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
 
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran : Lebanese mystical poet, philosopher & painter
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
 
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There are different wells within your heart.
Some fill with each good rain,
Others are far too deep for that.

Hafiz
Source: The Gift
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Recipe for greatness — To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great.

Zane Grey (1875 - 1939)
 
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Willing to experience aloneness,
I discover connection everywhere;
Turning to face my fear,
I meet the warrior who lives within;
Opening to my loss,
I am given unimaginable gifts;
Surrendering into emptiness,
I find fullness without end.

Each condition I flee from pursues me.
Each condition I welcome transforms me
And becomes itself transformed…

Jennifer Welwood
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Dove that ventured outside,        flying far from the dovecote:
housed and protected again,     one with the day, the night,
knows what serenity is,              for she has felt her wings
pass through all distance and fear       in the course of her wanderings.

The doves that remained at home,     never exposed to loss,
innocent and secure,               cannot know tenderness;
only the won-back heart              can ever be satisfied: free,
through all it has given up,                to rejoice in its mastery. 

Being arches itself                 over the vast abyss.
Ah the ball that we dared,     that we hurled into infinite space,
Doesn’t it fill our hands            differently with its return:
heavier by the weight             of where it has been.

Rainer Maria Rilke : German lyric poet & writer, b. Prague, lived in Paris, secretary to A. Rodin
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
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Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain

Sathya Sai Baba
 
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Farewell, but you will be
with me, you will go within
a drop of blood circulating in my veins
or outside, a kiss that burns my face
or a belt of fire at my waist.
My sweet, accept
the great love that came out of my life
and that in you found no territory
like the explorer lost
in the isles of bread and honey.
I found you after
the storm,
the rain washed the air
and in the water
your sweet feet gleamed like fishes.
Adored one, I am off to my fighting...

Pablo Neruda : Gaia Explorer
Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973)
Source: Captain's Verses (New Directions Paperbook), Page: 143 (Letter On the Road)
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I stood on the balcony dark with mourning...
hoping the earth would spread its wings
in my uninhabited love.

Pablo Neruda : Gaia Explorer
Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973)
Source: Winter Garden (A Kagean Book) (Spanish Edition), Page: 33 (Winter Garden)
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Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Helen Hayes (1900 - ?)
 
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Pleasure of love lasts a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Jean Pierre Claris de Florian
Source: Jean Pierre Claris de Florian
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A day is lost through loss of darkness

Albulena : Light seeker
Albulena Xh
 
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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Elizabeth Kubler Ross
 
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Sometimes we guard people from the truth to protect them from being hurt, but by doing that we only hurt them more in the long run.

Tina : girl_who_never_forgets
Christina Pagliarulo
 
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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.

Baker Priest
 
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When ever your heart grows weary, know that there is always a heart grieving much more then yours.

Tina : girl_who_never_forgets
Christina Pagliarulo
 
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’Tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good.

anonymous
Source: Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, xiii.
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Each that we lose takes a part of us;
   A crescent still abides,
Which like the moon, some turbid night,
   Is summoned by the tides.

Emily Dickinson : American poet
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Source: Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief
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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

Dean Koontz
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You kiss the back of my neck

I'm spinning to the ground

You run your strong fingers down my back

I can't hear a sound

You whisper things to me

So sweet I can taste your words

You're so close to me

I can feel our souls touching

You draw circles in my palm

Your love warms me to my toes, this I will never forget.

You loved me even if it was only for a minute

I hold onto that minute every night

You needed me even if only for a moment

I still hold onto that moment inside.

Tina : girl_who_never_forgets
Christina Pagliarulo
 
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What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy.

Viktor E. Frankl : Jewish psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor, founder of Logotherapy & author of "Man's Search for Meaning"
Viktor Frankl (1905 - 1997)
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
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And then I found myself losing myself.

Sol Luckman
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The biggest danger, that of losing oneself, can pass off in the world as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. is bound to be noticed.

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard : Danish philosopher
Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
Source: Sickness Unto Death
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"There's no way around grief and loss: you can doge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully come out the other side.  The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left."

Johnny Cash
Source: from Johnny Cash's autobiography
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What we have enjoyed, we can never lose... all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Adams Keller : American writer & lecturer, blind & deaf
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
 
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We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that a part of us shall remain inconsolable and never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it is completely filled, it will nevertheless remain something changed forever...

Sigmund Freud : Austrian founder of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
 
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In times of darkness, one must simply stop searching for the light, and become the glow for others to follow

Christopher Seymour
 
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How do you recover from an extraordinary loss? Take stock of the loved ones around you. Hug them, love them, and cherish them. When you appreciate the joys in your life, it makes sorrow that much easier to swallow. Every day is a new day. Hope floats, so let it rise. God is love.

Joseph Simmons
Source: Run's House
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The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Isaac Walton
 
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