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“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“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
“To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil.” Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
“'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.” Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.
“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
“But come; loss now will be gain then! To wait is harder than to run, and its meed is the fuller.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.” William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
“Things are sweeter when they're lost.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“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
“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
“The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense
“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
“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
“there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“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
“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
“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
“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
“What gamblers usually regret above all is less the loss of their money than of their foolish hopes.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“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
“Two words would comprehend my future—death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“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
“Go with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.” Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“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
“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.” Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“It's only after you've lost everything . . . that you're free to do anything.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. MEMORY. Memory becomes...” Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“He that is strucken blind cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?” Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time” John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

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