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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous. -- Maya Angelou
I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating. -- Annette Bening
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
That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South. They didn't look back, and they often didn't tell their children about it. They didn't want to talk about it. It was too painful, what they'd gone through and the caste system of the South, which was Jim Crow. -- Isabel Wilkerson
Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence. -- Eckhart Tolle
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening. -- Abraham Maslow
Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful? -- Laozi
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most. -- David Brooks
The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it. -- John Lurie
Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself. -- Robin McKinley

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