"You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do."

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"You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Loss, Importance, Realization, Relationship

"But Grover's voice was already growing fainter. 'Sweet dreams. Don't let me die!"

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Loss, Hope, Fear, Life

"Tiffany found her mind filling up with an invisible gray mist, and in that thought there was nothing but grief. She could feel herself trying to push back time, but even the best witchcraft could not do that."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Loss, Truth, Grief, Power, Wisdom

"It had been in their hands then; he was quite sure of it. But kids lose everything, kids have slippery fingers and holes in their pockets and they lose everything."

Stephen King, American Author

Loss, Regret, Truth, Today, Wisdom

"She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Loss, Life, Chaos, Disorder

"He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet a survivor - living on, deprived of Romeo... Was it not an essential part of Juliet's make-up that that she should die young?"

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Loss, Survival, Emotion, Love

"I tried to imagine him capital-S Somewhere as we prayed, but even then I could not quite convince myself that he and I would be together again. I already knew too many dead people. I knew that time would now pass for me differently then it would for him- that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter."

John Green, American Author

Loss, Death, Memory, Life

"Sydney spent a lot of time on my bed these days.Unfortunately, it wasn't with me."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Loss, Loneliness, Separation, Sadness, Presence

"He hath eaten me out of house and home."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Loss, Truth, Life, Power

"Lost love is still love, Eddie. It just takes a different form, that's all. You can't hold their hand... You can't tousle their hair... But when those senses weaken another one comes to life... Memory... Memory becomes your partner. You hold it... you dance with it... Life has to end, Eddie... Love doesn't."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Loss, Memory, Transformation, Comfort

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"You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them."

"But Grover's voice was already growing fainter. 'Sweet dreams. Don't let me die!"

"Tiffany found her mind filling up with an invisible gray mist, and in that thought there was nothing but grief. She could feel herself trying to push back time, but even the best witchcraft could not do that."

"It had been in their hands then; he was quite sure of it. But kids lose everything, kids have slippery fingers and holes in their pockets and they lose everything."

"She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together."

"He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet a survivor - living on, deprived of Romeo... Was it not an essential part of Juliet's make-up that that she should die young?"

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"You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do."

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