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“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil.” Arthur Schopenhauer, “The World as Will and Representation” - 1819

“It's only after you've lost everything . . . that you're free to do anything.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Fight Club” - 1996

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” John Steinbeck, “The Winter of Our Discontent” - 1961

“Things are sweeter when they're lost.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Beautiful and Damned” - 1922

“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive.” Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore” - 2002

“The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. —is sure to be noticed.” Søren Kierkegaard, “The Sickness Unto Death” - 1849

“there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.” William Shakespeare, “All's Well That Ends Well” - 1623

“Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that experiences it, that it makes up to us for all our other losses.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“But come; loss now will be gain then! To wait is harder than to run, and its meed is the fuller.” George MacDonald, “Lilith” - 1895

“To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.” Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes” - 1912

“The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.” Thomas Paine, “Common Sense” - 1776

“If my heart is breaking—let it break! That will not make the world bankrupt—nor even me; for man is so much greater than the things he loses in this life. The very ocean of tears has its other shore, else none would have ever wept.” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“One felt that in her renunciation of life she had willingly abandoned those places in which she would at least have been able to see him whom she loved, for others where he had never trod.” Marcel Proust, “Swann's Way” - 1913

“Two words would comprehend my future—death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.” Jane Austen, “Persuasion” - 1816

“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, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“I’ve lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.” George R. R. Martin, “A Storm of Swords” - 2000

“the friends that we have lost do not repose in the bosom of the earth, but are buried deep in our hearts, and it has been thus ordained that we may always be accompanied by them.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“You must save what you can of your life; you mustn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.” Henry James, “The Portrait of a Lady” - 1881

“He that is strucken blind cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

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