“True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but may become more intense if the beauty has changed into ugliness through causes that bind the lovers together in tender associations.” IfsLoveMayTogetherCausesLossChangedLoversAffectionIntenseShockAdmirationUnusualAssociationUgliness Book:Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day
“One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.” ChildrenRunningLossDogLoversHeartbreakAngelPatientSnowParksShockAmputation Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others
“To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.” LongMatterAgeCertainLanguageLossRegretBearsLoversFinalsWitnessIntricate Author:Mary Ellen Chase
“Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics. Civility reigns, voices are not raised, much goes unsaid. But just beneath the sophisticated composure are longing, loss, heartbreak. And how intensely familiar is the table itself, which made this reader suddenly understand how much of our real life takes place there. Heather A. Slomski is truly a fresh voice on the scene, and The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons is that rare thing, a new book as innovative in its design as it is compulsively readable.” MadeBookRealCharacterGivenVoiceLossDesignReaderLoversSceneTablesLongingRaisedReal LifeFamiliarCollectionsSophisticatedReignElegantInnovativeCivilitySpoonsDiningNew BooksDebutUnsaidComposureRare ThingsHeathersDining Table Author:Jaimy Gordon
“Anyone with a long-term partner, anyone with a long-term lover, if that lover dies, you could easily see yourself in a situation where you couldn't see your future and you would be living entirely in the past. It's about that loss.” IfsLongWould BePastDiesTermLossSituationLoversPartnersLong TermOur FutureYour Future Author:Tom Ford
“If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.” IfsFeelsLossLoversLosingPursuedPretty WomanGreat Loss Author:Erica Jong
“You can find many philosophy papers on the themes of 'love' and 'friendship,' most of which are cheerful and somewhat anodyne; you don't find many on the loss of friends, relatives, and lovers from death or alienation, though it happens all the time.” PhilosophyHappensLossLoversPaperThemeCheerfulPapersAlienationLove And FriendshipLoss Of A Friend Author:Catherine Wilson
“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.” KnowsDifferentEndsCharacterMotherLosesLossStepsEnemyKnowingFriendsLoversToolsDisappearGravesVersionsNovelistsJudgedDiamondConstructsFacetsPeople In Your LifeEssayistsCutters Author:Salman Rushdie