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“Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.”

Ifs Important Feelings Spiritual Loss Levels Communication Accomplish Damage Shock Delicate Gross

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“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.”

Ifs Love May Together Causes Loss Changed Lovers Affection Intense Shock Admiration Unusual Association Ugliness

Book:Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

“Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.”

Humans Doe Body Loss Majors Impact Trauma Shock Human Psyche

Author:Anne Grant

“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.”

Children Running Loss Dog Lovers Heartbreak Angel Patient Snow Parks Shock Amputation

Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

“Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!”

Men Stuff Loss He Man Materials Bears Murder Pressure Blame Shock Aviation Load Great Aviation Let Down

Book:The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

“I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.”

Children Has Beens Wanted Loss Grief Stage My Children Shock Disbelief

Author:Elin Nordegren

“[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.”

Thinking Trying Mind Desire Easy My Own Loss Audience Violence Childhood Happenings Victim Criminals Innocence Shock Loss Of Innocence

Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh

“I was in such a state of mental shock and quickly spiraled into a depression at the multitude of loss. My husband, I thought, was going to leave me. I was cut off from this mentor and someone I cared for very much, David Petraeus, who also did nothing to stand up for me and in fact, empowered his surrogates to throw me under the bus, and that was devastating.”

States Facts Loss Cutting Husband Shock My Husband Bus Mentor Multitudes Leaving Me Empowered Surrogates

Author:Paula Broadwell

“Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.”

World Two Next Loss This World Bears Consequence Tragedy Shock Fabric Ripple Cushions Great Tragedy

Book:Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound

Source: Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound