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We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us. -- Perry Brass
I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on. -- Khaled Hosseini
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature. -- Jack Kornfield
As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons. -- Mark Billingham
I've come to a much more controlled idea about death and loss, but I don't think it's possible to come to that much more controlled idea until you've gone through the crazy part . . . I don't mean that I'm controlled. I mean that I gave up the idea that I had control. That's the new control. -- Joan Didion
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. -- Hilaire Belloc
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I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death. -- Raj Kapoor
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome. -- Marco Tempest
Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies? -- Andrew Shue
Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under. -- Karen White
Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, or death. -- Sander Levin
I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams. -- Annie Lennox
Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it. -- Michael Leunig
And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned. -- Lynn Redgrave
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. -- Martha Beck
I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: 'What now? How to proceed?' -- Linn Ullmann
Following Michael Brown's death, I went to Ferguson and met with his parents. I stood with them as they tried to hold their heads high and deal with both their immense loss and the larger issues of police-community relations. -- Al Sharpton
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
The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience. -- John George Nicolay
I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until that point I'd lived in five different family configurations. Each one ended or changed through a death or some terrible loss. -- Sharon Salzberg
The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NATO prestige, a moral blow to U.S. troops and veterans, a Taliban resurgence, huge setbacks for women, and greater power for Pakistan and Pakistani extremists. -- Richard Engel
My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy. -- Judy Collins
The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life. -- Eckhart Tolle
Birth, not death, is the hard loss. -- Louise GluÌ?ck
Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. -- Ellen Hopkins
Death is the loss of everything all at once. -- Julie Salamon
A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible! -- Darren Shan
I'm on [Antonin] Scalia's side 100 percent. His death was a tremendous loss. -- Donald Trump
The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death. -- Alexander Hamilton
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony -- Niccolo Machiavelli
It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries. -- Evan Esar
The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse. -- Countee Cullen
The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss. -- Erin Hunter
When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life. -- Sigmund Freud
The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post. -- Leonid Andreyev
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. -- Norman Cousins
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. -- Jessica Lange
Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason. -- K.J. Parker
We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound. -- Francesca Marciano
I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home. -- William J. Clinton
When you suffer a loss, there is before the death and after the death - those become your two existences and your two realities. -- Sophia Bush
Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root; Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round a weedy tomb. -- Allen Tate
No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity.- Through the Gates of the Silver Key -- H. P. Lovecraft
There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose. -- Elizabeth Inchbald
Death is a great tragedy"¦a profound loss"¦I don't accept it"¦I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death. -- Ray Kurzweil
Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, There is not a miracle pill that will lead to weight loss. -- Richard Carmona
Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that's very powerful stuff. -- John Carpenter
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction "? there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome. -- Marco Tempest
[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force. -- Judith Martin
Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia... I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I must say, I wished he had been. -- Julia Gillard
A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else. -- Abigail Disney

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