“Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.”

— John Milton

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John Milton 190

English epic poet 1608–1674

Susan Hill book The Woman in Black

Source: The Woman in Black

“There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.”

John Marsden (1950) author

“Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made.”

Donald A. Norman book The Design of Everyday Things

Source: The Design of Everyday Things (1988, 2002), Ch. 6, p. 157.

“Once more in that hour of darkness
In dark black waters they arise
Dark songs pass before their eyes
They lie awake gazing into darkness”

Ataol Behramoğlu (1942) Turkish writer

"Black Song" ["Kara Şarki"]
I've Learned Some Things (2008)

“There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.”

David Almond book Kit's Wilderness

Source: Kit's Wilderness

“Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart.”

Jim Steinman (1947) American musician

Total Eclipse of the Heart (1983)
Context: Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I'm only falling apart
There's nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart.