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“The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.”

Author:Ouida

“The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.”

Loss Illusion Cures

Book:The Glory of Clementina

Source: The Glory of Clementina

“We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety -- and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal.”

“This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.”

Ifs Stills Past Waiting Hours Prayer Loss Minutes Illusion Inheritance Compounds Calendars Unfinished Rosary

Book:99 Poems: New & Selected

Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected

“The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.”

Firsts Loss Identity Illusion Discovery Painful Exhilarating Strengthening

Book:Toward a Psychology of Being

Source: Toward a Psychology of Being

“It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Firsts May Real Death Evil Natural Loss Acting Ought Sorrow Illusion Gains Overcoming Errors Separation Evident Weeping Happier Life

Author:Charles Webster Leadbeater

“Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss rekindles desire, makes people have conversations they haven't had in years, takes them out of their contrived illusion of safety.”

People Years Desire Loss Powerful Havens Conversation Illusion Safety Affair Flats Complacency

Author:Esther Perel

“On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live in constant fear, but we can't live without any. The fear of loss is essential to love.”

Matter Passion Loss Levels Security Essentials Degrees Illusion Trade Constant Trading

Author:Esther Perel

“Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.”

Littles Loses Loss Illusion Painful Wounds Umbrella

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“I am here to tell you there's nothing in people knowing you. There's actually a loss in that! Really, the reward in life is genuinely the day of work you have. It's not the name you're making for yourself or the clicks and likes - it's such an illusion.”

People Loss Illusion

Author:Lauren Graham

“That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.”

World Giving Long Whole Care Loss Novel Color Glory Illusion Burden Don't Care True Or False

Book:A Life in Letters

Source: A Life in Letters

“They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)”

People Humans Pain Human Beings Loss Illusion Indignity Pain And Loss Excruciating Pain

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as though it was something I was losing now; a loss I was experiencing for the first time, and not something I had lost a long time ago.”

Ifs Firsts Long Moments Dream Lost Loss Sleep Air Long Time Losing Illusion First Time Floats Long Time Ago

Book:Woman at Point Zero

Source: Woman at Point Zero