Loss

“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end: we fancy that we have always possessed what we love, so difficult is it to imagine how we could have lived without it” – Translated by Isabel Hill

– Germaine de Staël
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1000 Quotes Project

"A Selection of Curated Quotes"

1058 – “Everyone is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.”

961 – “Someone I loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

944 – “Once destroyed, Nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.”

833 – “Always.”

587 – “I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched.”

487 – “I think the hardest part of losing someone isn’t having to say goodbye, but rather learning to live without them. Always trying to fill the void, the emptiness that’s left inside your heart when they go.”

284 – “When you lose someone you try to remember the last time you saw them.And most of the time it’s a blurry memory, because at that time you had no idea it would be the last.”

210 – “People say. ‘There are other fish in the sea.’ I say ‘Fuck you; she was my sea.'”

140 – “Sans doute, c’est par l’amour que l’éternité peut être comprise; il confond toutes les notions du temps; il efface les idées de commencement et de fin; on croit avoir toujours aimé l’objet qu’on aime; tant il est difficile de concevoir qu’on ait pu vivre sans lui!”