Losses Quote by Anne Lamott

“when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in”

— Jane Austen

“Pain is a breach in the walls of decline and stagnation.”

— Bryant McGill

“Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley…

— Eldridge Cleaver

“Of course, any map of the Place would be shocking to anyone with any understanding of geography. As you can see, this is a…

— Elizabeth Knox

“The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll.…

— Tahir Shah

“It can only be that places left behind often become emotionally simplified - that they sound a single note of pain or pleasure, which…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Many adults, in the indurated immobility of years, acquire a fear of places they have never been, even as they long for something different…

— Steven Erikson

“Pain is a crucial part of our reality; it awakens a person from a mental stupor. A person must never be afraid to discover…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Pain, as well as beauty, is necessary to give us perspective. We can place our suffering against the backdrop of time and allow our…

— Mary Pipher

“it is geography—especially in the displaced form of departures, arrivals, farewells, exile, nostalgia, homesickness, belonging, and travel itself—that is at the core of my…

— Edward Said

“Make a map of what you see, Direct pain effectively.”

— Tegan Quin

“Experience didn't necessarily point one toward true north.”

— T.M. Doran