Nick Cave (September 22, 1957 -) The paradoxical effect of losing a loved one is that their sudden absence can become a feverish comment on that which remains. That which remains rises in time from the dark with a burning physicality — a luminous super-presence — as we acquaint ourselves with this new and different …
Haruki Murakami On Loss
Haruki Murakami (January 12, 1949 -) By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to learn. What I learned from Naoko’s death was this: no truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no …
Rebecca Solnit On Loss
Rebecca Solnit (June 24, 1961 - ) Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing. There are objects and people that disappear from your sight or knowledge or possession; you lose a bracelet, a friend, the key. You still know where you …
Tao Writer On The Crushing Weight Of GoodBye
Tao Writer (April 17, 1948 -) She told him what had kept her away was Death. But he rejected that excuse—for Death, he said, can never come between lovers. — Naguib Mahdouz (December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) I never thought the last time we said, “Good bye,” would be the last time. If I …
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Epictetus On Loss
Epictetus (c. 55 – 135 AD) Who is good if he knows not who he is? And who knows what he is, if he forgets that things which have been made are perishable, and that it is not possible for one human being to be with another always?
Katharine Weber On Loss
Katharine Weber (November 12, 1955 -) Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what’s left, that’s the part you have to make up as you go.
