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I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up. -- Taylor Swift
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss? -- Alice Hoffman
What else is there to write about than love and loss? -- Alice Hoffman
This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak. -- Sylvia Brownrigg
It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities. -- Michael Almereyda
This Dewdrop World is a beautiful, courageous, intimate film about love and loss. It may also be the deepest meditation on climate change that I've ever seen. -- Jeff Goodell
I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters. -- Maeve Binchy
In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic conundrums, kaleidoscopic comedies, puzzlements, certain and uncertain loves and losses. -- Susan Howe
Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared. -- Eric Gamalinda
He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears. -- Cassandra Clare
I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves. -- Pam Houston
Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a born poet, and a born writer. The Canoe is just the start of what I hope to be a long idyllic journey through the love and soul of the human heart. -- Trent Zelazny
All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps these tears would have value and all this grief would have some meaning. Otherwise, it was all a waste, just an endless cycle of birth and death; of love and loss. -- Thrity Umrigar
Overall the theme is about never giving in... not letting anyone tell you what to do or take anything away from you. Always being yourself, whatever that may be. The content obviously takes a darker and romantic approach to relationships about love and loss, as well as overcoming adversity in everyday life. Generally, just being tough and standing up for what you believe. -- Ashley Purdy
THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable. As with all the very best books in our field, it's not the fantasy trappings (wonderful as they are) that make this novel so good, but what the author has to say about true, common things, about ambition and failure, art, love, and loss. -- Tad Williams
I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win. -- Justin Halpern
We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds. -- Maeve Binchy
I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires. -- Andrew Motion
I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. -- Dave Reichert
What's the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care for those animals? There's a lot of joy, and there's a lot of loss. -- Thomas French
That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father? -- Maurice Sendak
I didn't start out about weight loss. I was very tired and my energy was low. This is my second go-around in love, so I want to make sure I'll be around to enjoy it. -- Niecy Nash
I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love. -- Mackenzie Phillips
After the loss of my sister - my darkest time - I tried to think of the beauty she'd brought to this world and the lives she had touched and the love she had left behind. -- Susanna Kearsley
I found that people like rules, and I love to tell people what to do. It's not rocket science when it comes to weight loss. It's about eating a little less and moving a little bit more. -- Bob Harper
My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come. -- Tara Brach
I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan was to write a book about how people deal with love and loss. -- Junot Diaz
It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another. -- Rachel Weisz
There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss. -- Aimee Bender
In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun. -- Johann Lamont
The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit. -- Mark Ruffalo
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life. -- Tara Brach
Why is the measure of love loss? -- Jeanette Winterson
Hold on to the love, not the loss. -- Eva Longoria
the reverse side of love is unbearable loss. -- Susan Abulhawa
Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it. -- Rick Yancey
Real loss only possible when you love something more than yourself. -- Robin Williams
Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it. -- Joe L. Wheeler
As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. -- Cassandra Clare
Although our love never dies, the pain of our loss can eventually dissolve. -- Judy Tatelbaum
Six years of dreams would end in eternal love, or an eternity of loss. -- Michelle Hughes
When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself. -- Robin Williams
The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love. -- Shana Alexander
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous. -- Maya Angelou
The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all. -- Albert Camus
I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss. -- Emily Susan Rapp
I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me. -- Meister Eckhart
The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse. -- Countee Cullen
Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare. -- Stephanie Beatriz
Love in Life is never a battle of 'win' or 'loss' but a journey of unconditional acceptance. -- Sandhya Jane
There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss if there hadn't been love. -- Amy Harmon
And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand. -- Simon Armitage
Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was. -- Linda Ronstadt
It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it. -- Roger Ebert
You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss -- Jodi Picoult
I think I felt God's love the deepest when I experienced my deepest loss. Amazing how God does that! -- Jennifer Rothschild
Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most. -- David Brooks
I thought of the pillowcases as a symbol of love and loss, of retaining the memory of your loved one. -- Chath Piersath
You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss. -- Alice Walker
Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason. -- K.J. Parker
What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love. -- Maira Kalman
The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things? -- Lisa Ann Sandell
If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it. -- Andrew Solomon
To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds. -- Leah Hager Cohen
A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all. -- Brad Pitt
I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal. -- Nathan Parsons
Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love. -- Sigmund Freud
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control. -- bell hooks
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. -- Wendell Willkie
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. -- Wendell Willkie
But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness. -- Dean Koontz
Everyone surrounding you has gone through similar things. The search for love or the desire to have a family or the loss of a child. -- Alicia Vikander
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite. -- William Blake
Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us. -- James Howell
I believe we recover from loss by facing the loss, grieving, going deep inside ourselves (hopefully with a guide) and re-emerging to live and love again. -- Francesca Lia Block
I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife) -- Audrey Niffenegger
During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth. -- L. Frank Baum
If we didn't love things, then we couldn't feel their loss. The flip side of loving is losing. I mean, you can't experience one without the other. -- Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy. -- Andrew Solomon
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity. -- Soren Kierkegaard
It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out. -- Hailey Edwards
My daughter fell in love with Ben Barnes, of course. She's 17. What are you gonna do? That was a tragic loss. He didn't fall in love with her. -- Diane Keaton
When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love. -- Gary Zukav
You don't know about real loss because it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. -- Sean Maguire
Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff! -- Tristan Wilds
This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing. -- Ann Aguirre

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