--- title: "9 Loss And Love Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 9 Loss And Love quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Loss And Love sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fa/tahereh-mafi-229_books_i-spend-my-life-folded-between-pages-of_1419967.jpg" --- > [“I spend my life folded between pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tahereh-mafi/i-spend-my-life-folded-between-pages-of-books-in-the-absence-of-human/) [Tahereh Mafi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tahereh-mafi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fa/tahereh-mafi-229_books_i-spend-my-life-folded-between-pages-of_1419967.jpg) > [And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-armitage/and-wonder-dread-and-war-have-lingered-in-that-land-where-loss-and/) [Simon Armitage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-armitage/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f5/simon-armitage-19200_and-love_and-wonder-dread-and-war-have-lingered-i_2550074.jpg) > [“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tahereh-mafi/i-spent-my-life-folded-between-the-pages-of-books-in-the-absence-of-3/) [Tahereh Mafi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tahereh-mafi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/579/tahereh-mafi-229_book_i-spent-my-life-folded-between-the-pages_3062216.png) > [Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-beatriz/everyone-feels-loss-and-love-and-laughter-that-s-what-connects/) [Stephanie Beatriz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-beatriz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/145/stephanie-beatriz-13455_and-love_everyone-feels-loss-and-love-and-laughte_2360220.jpg) > [Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-rau-badami/monkey-beach-is-a-moody-powerful-novel-full-of-memorable-characters/) [Anita Rau Badami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-rau-badami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a72/anita-rau-badami-55566_and-love_monkey-beach-is-a-moody-powerful-novel-f_1976180.jpg) > [After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/after-departure-only-invisible-things-are-left-perhaps-the-life-of/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/997/anonymous-1_and-love_after-departure-only-invisible-things-ar_1211858.jpg) > [“And when all was done and all was said, we sat silently staring at the moon's reflection on the rippling river, soaking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alys-arden/and-when-all-was-done-and-all-was-said-we-sat-silently-staring-at-the/) [Alys Arden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alys-arden/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0da/alys-arden-37420_love-and-loss_and-when-all-was-done-and-all-was-said-w_2630547.jpg) > [That song, for me, is about drugs and alcohol and loss and love. It's about being proud of who you are, being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bert-mccracken/that-song-for-me-is-about-drugs-and-alcohol-and-loss-and-love-it-s/) [Bert McCracken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bert-mccracken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c00/bert-mccracken-28008_alcohol_that-song-for-me-is-about-drugs-and-alco_1442930.png) > [“Nothing we encounter is by chance, for each is a Godsend in this life. It may not seem clear at the time,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayita-bhattacharjee/nothing-we-encounter-is-by-chance-for-each-is-a-godsend-in-this-life/) [Jayita Bhattacharjee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jayita-bhattacharjee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a91/jayita-bhattacharjee-15109_blossom_nothing-we-encounter-is-by-chance-for-ea_578561.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/loss-and-love/#itemlist", "name": "Loss And Love Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I spend my life folded between pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. 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