CURATED COLLECTION

Starting Over After Loss

Beginning again is one of the hardest things a person can do — and one of the most necessary.

50 quotes found

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I have crossed an ocean. I have lost my tongue. From the root of the old one, a new one has sprung.

—Grace NicholsPoet

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives.

—Rupi KaurPoet

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be expelled.

—Elena GarroPlaywright, Novelist & Journalist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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We have on this earth what makes life worth living.

—Mahmoud DarwishPoet

Late Modern ERA • MENA

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My culture is my armor and my undoing.

—Terese Marie MailhotAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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I write because I have to. I write because I have to make sense of my world.

—Edwidge DanticatNovelist & Essayist

Contemporary ERA • Caribbean

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My mother tongue is the house I carry on my back.

—Meena AlexanderPoet & Memoirist

Contemporary ERA • South Asia

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We believe the one we love cannot be truly lost to us.

—Yaa GyasiNovelist

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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Sorrow is a river. You cannot stop it, only learn to swim.

—Grace OgotAuthor & Politician

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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His memory lives within me, a constant companion through every trial.

—Layla al-AkhyaliyyaPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Though grief shadows my path, my spirit finds strength to endure each dawn.

—Layla al-AkhyaliyyaPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

—George EliotScholar & Thinker

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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In a city of refugees, every day was a lesson in how to live with impermanence.

—Mohsin HamidNovelist

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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Beauty is but a fleeting breath that lives and dies in one brief day.

—Sarojini NaiduPoet & Activist

Industrial Age ERA • South Asia

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We must weave threads of memory so the past does not vanish.

—Marjorie AgosínPoet & Activist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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We are the hollow, the empty space, the ghost dance.

—Tommy OrangeAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

—Rainer Maria RilkePoet

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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The light of hope always shines even in the darkest corners of despair.

—Ba JinNovelist & Thinker

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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El hogar es donde el corazón se quiebra y se reconstruye una y otra vez.

—Rosario FerréNovelist, Writer & Essayist

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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Let me begin again. Let me put down my guns.

—Ocean VuongPoet & Novelist

Digital Age ERA • North America

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