"The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise."

Loss, Disguise, Heir, Laughter, Weeping

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"When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Loss, Wife, Change, Life

"When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.)"

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Loss, Truth, Wisdom, Love, Life

"It's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Loss, History, War, Sensitivity

"If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never completely get over the loss of a deeply beloved person. But this is also good news. The person lives forever, in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through, and you learn to dance with the banged-up heart."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Loss, Heart, Love, Dance

"Fear no more as long as her memory surrounds you like a ghost, cry no more as long as she weeps for you like a willow."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Loss, Memory, Grief, Spirit, Sorrow

"He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Loss, Memory, Innocence, Childhood

"When I say I'm going to forget you I know it's impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I'm saying it's what I wish for, not what is or could ever be."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Loss, Memory, Forgetfulness, Pain

"We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

Loss, Uncertainty, Change, Future

"May be you are gone,but that doesn't make me come back."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Loss, Grief, Distance, Absence

"Your loss, serves as a stark reminder that, although I feel so alone-I am not alone."

Eleesha, British Author

Loss, Grief, Connection, Support, Community

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"When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed."

"When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.)"

"It's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle."

"Fear no more as long as her memory surrounds you like a ghost, cry no more as long as she weeps for you like a willow."

"He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he."

"When I say I'm going to forget you I know it's impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I'm saying it's what I wish for, not what is or could ever be."

"We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it."

"May be you are gone,but that doesn't make me come back."

"Your loss, serves as a stark reminder that, although I feel so alone-I am not alone."

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"The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty."

"Speech is the mirror of the soul."

"Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world."

"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."

"It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door."

"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."

"It is not every question that deserves an answer."

"Take care that no one hates you justly."

"From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own."

"Never promise more than you can perform."