#loss

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#loss #love #love

I did not think you would be angry, Jem burst out, and it was like ice cracking across a frozen waterfall, freeing a torrent. We were engaged, Tessa. A proposal-an offer of marriage-is a promise. A promise to love and care for someone always. I did not mean to break mine to you. But it was that or die. I wanted to wait, to be married to you and live wit you for years, but that wasn't possible. I was dying too fast. I would have given it up-all of it up-to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder-a reminder of everything I am losing. The life I will not have. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #jem-carstairs #loss #love #marriage

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before. ↗

— John Green

#loss #memory #remember

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#appear #blessings #disappointments #figures #let us

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#downs #great #joys #life #losses

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#cia #come #compromise #compromised #conclusion

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field. ↗

— Tori Amos

#bull #color #field #gloss #guys

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#any #capital #company #early #i

If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I'm going to teach you otherwise. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#going #i #loss #otherwise #requires

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#delight #else #loss #nature #nothing