Loss · Skopia

Quotes

10

Philosophical literature

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss-an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc.-is sure to be noticed.

Soren Kierkegaard

Sickness Unto Death · 1849

★ 3.7

No man can lose what he never had.

The Compleat Angler · 1653

★ 3.6

How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

1732

★ 3.6

I heard the old, old men say, "All that's beautiful drifts away Like the waters."

1903

★ 3.6

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Songs

8

Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)

1975★ 8.0

Shine on You Crazy DiamondPink Floyd

Shine on You Crazy Diamond

1975★ 7.6

Amarillo By Morning

1983★ 6.8

It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday

1991★ 5.1

The Way It Goes

2011★ 4.5

To Ohio

2009★ 3.8

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Books

7

Poems

Elizabeth Bishop

1979★ 7.8

Out of Africa

1937★ 6.5

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Haruki Murakami

1985★ 6.4

A Death in the Family

1957★ 6.3

A Small Place

Jamaica Kincaid

1988★ 6.2

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

1980★ 6.0

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