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“Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?”

World Art Dream Loss Darkness Youth Summer Art Love

Book:Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929

Source: Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929

“Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire.”

Knows Looks Heart Realizing Loss Darkness Forever Childhood Longing Rings Innocence Hollow Campfire Happy Childhood Loss Of Innocence

Author:Carolyn Hart

“So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.”

Self Felt Loss Darkness Position Significant Self Worth Enthusiasm Decline Tied My Self Worth

Author:Tom Johnson

“I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life, where there's been loss, where there's sadness of a deep kind. If poetry can help people to be more at ease in expressing even to themselves a lot of the darkness and pain of ordinary human existence, then it's serving some kind of cultural role, perhaps more than a cultural role, perhaps it is serving something of a spiritual role.”

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Author:Kevin Hart

“Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun.”

Suffering Fun Loss Watches Darkness Elements

Author:Pete Docter

“When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain, we can bring back up with us the sweetness of life and the exhilaration of inner growth. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self - the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.”

Source: Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow

“Blindness brought with it a million adjustments and losses and emotions. But, there really was this unshakeable sense, deep within me, that God had already prepared me for the darkness. And he did it through his Word.”

Loss Emotion Millions Darkness Prepared Blindness Adjustment Deep Within

Author:Jennifer Rothschild

“In those places of doubt and even darkness I've realized that who I am has nothing to do with wins or losses, applause, or negative criticism. It has to do with whose I am.”

Winning Loss Darkness Doubt Negative Criticism

Author:Tim Tebow

“I think living in the West, we live in a culture where everybody strives for perfection, whether it's in body, health, spirit, skin, hair, nails. Perfect happiness would be a constant state of bliss, which doesn't exist. Growing up and going through the loss I went through, I never had a moment where I believed a constant state of bliss was possible. Instead, I tried to create many moments. But, I didn't know how to get there. Because of what I went through, I have a natural tendency towards darkness. Though it may be in my DNA as well.”

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Author:Loung Ung

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”

Ifs Has Beens Light Dark Loss Darkness Novelists Grieving Discontent Light And Dark Griefing

Book:The Winter of our Discontent

Source: The Winter of our Discontent

“Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.”

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Book:Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel