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“Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a servant to take the body of the bird away and bury it. The boy never cried again, and he never forgot...”
“He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.”
“Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?”
“Well, if you live long enough, you lose a lot. Just as long as you don't throw them away. Whatever you loose, you'll find again, but what you throw away you never get back.-Oibore (Enishi's dad) to...”
“Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.”
“How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.”
“For the first time in my life I understood the meaning of the word 'never'. And it's really awful. You say the word a hundred times a day but you don't really know what you're saying until you're f...”
“How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?”
“the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.”
“You cant replace people you love with other peopleBut you can trust that youre not going to run out of people to love.”
“Sweet for a little even to fear, and sweet, O love, to lay down fear at loves fair feet; Shall not some fiery memory of his breath Lie sweet on lips that touch the lips of death? Yet leave me not; ...”
“He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the...”
“All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.”
“If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.”
“When I was a boy my grandfather died, and he was a sculptor. He was also a very kind man who had a lot of love to give the world, and he helped clean up the slum in our town; and he made toys for u...”
“Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts ar...”
“How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.”
“Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.”
“I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.”
“What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it...”
