"Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone."

Loss, Nostalgia, Beauty, Absence

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"Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone."

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"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

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"Let me talk to my mother. She is listening from above."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"No one will retrieve my lost heartamidst so many roots, in the bitter freshnessof the sun multiplied by the fury of the water,there the shadow lives that does not travel with me."

Pablo Neruda, Chilean Writer

Loss, Poetry, Isolation, Nature

"Fateful encounters with a cruel world reveal our character. No human is immune from heartbreaking loss. Regardless of our socioeconomic status, eventually everybody shall suffer a grievous personal loss, a body blow that inflicts pain of inexpressible magnitude."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"Let me talk to my mother. She is listening from the above."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"One of the hardest things you will ever have to go through is the death of a child. The second hardest thing you will ever have to go through is having a child die at Christmas time. The third hardest thing you will ever have to go through is telling your child that their friend and family member has passed away. The bittersweet moment that pulls you through it all is when your child says, "Mom don't cry. They're okay because they are with God now and they promise not to leave until they help you get through this."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"Time wasted can never be compensated."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Loss, WastedTime, Irrecoverable, Reflection

"The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass as if trying to escape to freedom; and he buried his wife without a tombstone. Where before, she sat most times in his home, licking her wounds."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Loss, Freedom, Death, Love, Grief

"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

"I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting - the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the single moment that I lost myself. Lost what made me Sam. The part of me that could remember Grace's name."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"I think that's shameful, even if it's just a story, to propose an afterlife for evil... Any afterlife notion is a manipulation and a sop. It's shameful the way the unionists and the pagans both keep talking up hell for intimidation and the airy Other Land for reward."

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"The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious."

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"Her head had turned quickly away...Not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence."

Emotion

"Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met."

Growth

"Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal."

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"People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of."

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"Immortality is a chancy thing, it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is."

Philosophy

"Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?"

Insight

"As the first hard drops of rain fell, the Witch caught sight, not of the girl's face, but of the shoes. Her sister's shoes. They sparkled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood, and thorny stars."

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