But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain.

To the world, it doesn’t matter that much. Until you remember that it means the world to the patient. One exact world, bright and full of sounds, per person. That is what is lost.

Jeeter?” Grace whispered into her walkie-talkie. “Are you awake?” She waited.A few weeks ago, she and Jeeter had started chatting on their walkie-talkies late at night when she couldn’t sleep. He always answered her call...

It is all gone, though Peter. All of it is gone! And there is no way to get it back.’Eat,’ said Leo Matienne again, very gently.Peter looked the truth of what he had lost full...

It’s amazing to me; when your mind is fixed on one thing, you forget everything. You forget to eat and drink and care. The only thing I could never forget was him.

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

How do you do it?””Do what?””All of it. You know. Go to class and practice. Make it through the day. Act like … like none if it mattered.”Jason swore beneath his breath and pulled the...

It was Jeremy at the door. He recognized something in Jacob. Jeremyis a cancer survivor.

She’s kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she’s turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only...

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

As a kid I heard the word malignancy as “Malig-Nancy” like an evil woman’s name, no matter how many times Kiwi and the Chief and Dr. Gautman himself corrected me. Our mother had mistaken her...

For Someone Awakening To The Trauma of His or Her Past:For everything under the sun there is a time.This is the season of your awkward harvesting,When the pain takes you where you would rather not...

Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I’m heavy,...

I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t...

If you accept that pets can love us as much as we do them, then the logic is clear and cannot be denied. If you believe that there is a heaven for people, then they...

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

No.. You have wonYou can never loseI won’t let you loseYou are destined to winYou are destined to live in prosperity ..and to tell you.. You have won my existence!!

When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and...

She always used to suspect that the price for happiness, the price for enjoying the company of a person you loved, was the steadily increasing risk of losing them, and at times, when she considered...

The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her unreal; and us solemn, and self-conscious. We were made to act...

There are a million ways to lose someone you love.

That what I need to survive is not Gale’s fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means...

Some losses never heal you just learn to carry the burden and shed a tear every now and then

But you don’t know what it was like. It was just the two of us that afternoon, and then . . . and then it was just me.

You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you lose your balance.

Tapi, apakah hilang itu? Ada yang lebih mengerikan pada kehilangan bahkan dibanding kematian. Kehilangan adalah kekosongan tanpa dasar. Kekosongan tanpa kepastian apapun. Kau tak punya pegangan. Dan harapan menganiaya dirimu. Kau menduga-duga.

The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life.Now, with the new feeling that had ripened in him, he became aware of another law: that we are given only...

She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words...

From loss breeds new beginnings

Thoughts, pictures of him would come to me just a second after waking, shocking me from the forgetfulness of sleep, striking blows that were almost physical. And even in sleep I was not completely free....

…all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.

When you go,if you go,And I should want to die,there’s nothing I’d be saved bymore than the timeyou fell asleep in my armsin a trust so gentleI let the darkening roomdrink up the evening, tillrest,...

Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages

There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the surface of me like a bruise.

I didn’t lose and let everybody else beat me so much as I made the race last. Last place means I had the most time to enjoy the experience.

I dont know what happens to country.

We made love like Wednesday and Thursday, only Thursday wasn’t always on top. Her name was Yesterday, and today will always remind me of her.

She knew nothing of the massacre that went on around her, but when she released the wail of a broken hearted mother, one man heard her. The one who took her son’s life.

So much ice.She thumbed a drying tear away.How much water can the weight of ice carry?

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be ‘Doctor of Life,’ and I will be in good company. So many of...

Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would...

I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it.

The coach who goes home and doesn’t think about the game he just lost is bound to repeat his mistakes.

Because it isn’t a loss; just a little piece of their haven had broken off. People can patch things; it still may hurt, but that’s life.

Did I miss the denial, anger, and bargaining phases, or did you leap straight to depression?

Goodbye,” she told him, running her hand across his broad back one last time. “I love you. And I’ll never, ever stop missing you.

Then, in spite of everything, he began to smile. So much of his existence in Everlost had been full of despair. Despair, and a fear of losing what he had. But Allie was not lost,...