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“Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.”

Stills Night Loses Loss Moon Tides Crescent

Book:The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

“Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.”

Important Use Night Loss Pleasure Economy Pure Tables Occasions Every Night Meanness Thrift

Book:Sixpence in Her Shoe

Source: Sixpence in Her Shoe

“the most deeply moving element in the contemplation of beauty is the element of loss. We desire to hold; but the sunset melts into the night, and the secret of the painting on the wall can never be the secret of the buyer.”

Moving Desire Night Loss Secret Beauty Painting Wall Elements Longing Contemplation Sunset Buyers

Book:Catherine Carter: A Novel

Source: Catherine Carter: A Novel

“The worst losses come at night.”

Night Loss Worst

Book:Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language

Source: Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language

“I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.”

Knows Believe Soul Helping Spiritual Night I Believe Dark Loss Answers Common Perseverance Seeking Spiritual Experience Dark Night Dark Night Of The Soul Loss Of Faith

Author:Julia Cameron

“The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.”

Doe Moments Joy Night Turns Change Wealth Loss Gone Fortune Mortals Misfortunes

Author:Sophocles

“Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.”

Long Body Spirit Night Loss Forever Identity Long Time Mark Shallow Forgetfulness Long Nights Loss Of Identity

Author:R. A. Lafferty

“Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.”

Men Has Beens Beautiful Night Loss Sky Moon Anxiety Shining Disaster Mars Splendid Trinity Venus

Author:Janet Flanner

“After Birth is a fast-talking, opinionated, moody, funny, and slightly desperate account of the attempt to recover from having a baby. It is a romp through dangerous waters, in which passages of hilarity are shadowed by the dark nights of earliest motherhood, those months so tremulous with both new love and the despairing loss of one's identity-to read it is an absorbing, entertaining, and thought-provoking experience.”

“What helps me is watching other people negotiate loss. I think about how we dropped a bomb on people in Hiroshima and 150,000 people were killed in one night. Those people had to mourn and they had to rebuild their city right away.”

People Thinking Helping Night Loss Cities Bombs Help Me One Night Mourn Hiroshima

Author:Patti Smith

“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.”

“So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.”

Two Moments Night Next Loss Relationship Perfection Two Things Next Day Fleeting

Book:The Memoirs of Cleopatra

Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra

“I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night.”

Feels Hard Night Loss Morning Awareness Normal Down And Forgotten Dawn Sunlight Feel Better Reproof Crashing Down

Author:Francine Prose

“The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row--a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.”

Source: Farther Away: Essays