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“The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story - of course that is how we all live, it's the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It's like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It's like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you - and it can't, and it shouldn't, because something IS missing. That isn't of its nature negative. The missing part, the missing past, can be an opening, not a void. It can be an entry as well as an exit. It is the fossil record, the imprint of another life, and although you can never have that life, your fingers trace the space where it might have been, and your fingers learn a kind of Braille.”

Life Birth Nostalgia Opening Narrative Adoption Longing For Death

Book:Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“All I have is this pale image of a clouded dream that could never be real, and I can’t seem to move on. She had this wild laugh about her, and it was special, you know… it was rare, it was different, and it was mine, and I can’t find it anywhere… because it’s gone. She was special, she was different, and different is hard to find.”

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Author:Marilyn Velez

“I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.”

Kind I Can Remember Longing Longing For Death

Book:Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

Source: Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

“I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.”

Desire Loses Longing Longing For Death

Author:Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

“The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life”

“Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.”

Mean Art Two Ends Light Passion Strong Darkness Seeing Longing Extremes Borders Motivated Extremism Distaste Longing For Death

Author:Milan Kundera

“The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.”

Life Is Order Longing Disruption Incessant Longing For Death

Book:The farewell party

Source: The farewell party

“At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.”

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Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.”

Mean Art Ends Passion Balance Longing Borders Moderation Extremism Unbearable Lightness Of Being Unbearable Lightness Longing For Death

Author:Milan Kundera

“I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.”

Darkness Despair Longing Constant Rejection Longing For Death Constant Rejection

Book:The Queen's Fool: A Novel

Source: The Queen's Fool: A Novel

“People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.”

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Author:Polly Toynbee