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“There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton

“In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .”

Source: Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic

“I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.”

Mind Found Loss Pleasure Heard Danger Return Direct Brave Terror Hopeless Scream Mentor Distress Vessel Extravagant Navigation Wailing Voluptuous Presence Of Mind

Author:Francois Fenelon

“The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.”

Ifs Men Giving Feels Time Sound Hours Loss Wise Heard Angel Notes Tongue Strikes Spokes Bells Solemn Departed

Book:Night thoughts on life, death and immortality: With a memoir of the author, a critical view of his writings, and explanatory notes

Source: Night thoughts on life, death and immortality: With a memoir of the author, a critical view of his writings, and explanatory notes

“Visual renditions of war not only establish what can be seen, and the audio-track established what can be heard, but the photographs also "train" us in ways of focusing on targets, ways of regarding suffering and loss.”

Way War Suffering Loss Heard Train Photograph Track Visuals Target Audio

Author:Judith Butler

“Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.”

World Way Two Dream Might Mother Universe Loss Heard Loneliness Design Shapes Sooner Or Later Misunderstanding Static Dream World Love Loss

Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss.”

Men Kind Stills Different Soul Enough Pain Turns Loss Grief Heard Cry Goodness Clothes Skins Ears Stranger Rage Good Man Grief And Loss Scar Pillow Detectives Deep Inside Badges

Author:John Connolly