Andrew Solomon Quotes About Loss
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I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
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Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.
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That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.
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I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.
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