#loss

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#everything #go #i #life #like

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms. ↗

— Margaret Stohl

#loss #love #pain #beauty

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#colossal #get #having #these #titles

I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#both #came #chord #church #connection

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#activism #art #conducive #corners #edges

En effet: je mourais déjà. Je venais d'apprendre cette nouvelle horrible que tout humain apprend un jour ou l'autre: ce que tu aimes, tu vas le perdre. "Ce qui t'a été donné te sera repris." Face à la découverte de cette spoliation future, il y a deux attitudes possibles: soit on décide de ne pas s'attacher aux êtres et aux choses, afin de rendre l'amputation moins douloureuse; soit on décide, au contraire, d'aimer d'autant plus les êtres et les choses, d'y mettre le paquet - "puisque nous n'aurons pas beaucoup de temps ensemble, je vais te donner en un an tout l'amour que j'aurais pu te donner en une vie. ↗

— Amélie Nothomb

#loss #love #attitude

When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#loss #love #age

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#i #like #loss #much #out

At times, we are the bridge that allows another to re-enter the world after a loss. Don't mistake it for more or its beauty may be lost. ↗

— Danielle Pierre

#friendship-and-love #life #loss #love #support

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#american dream #been #dream #federal #federal government