“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”

— Khaled Hosseini , book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

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novelist 1965

Michael Horton (theologian) (1964) American theologian

What Are Evangelicals Afraid of Losing? (2018)

“Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.”

Solomon Asch (1907–1996) American psychologist

Solomon Asch, Social Psychology (1952), p. 61.

“Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.”

Tamora Pierce book Alanna: The First Adventure

Source: Alanna: The First Adventure

“Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Carnal Innocence

“But Hudibras gave him a twitch
As quick as lightning in the breech,
Just in the place where honour's lodg'd,
As wise philosophers have judg'd;
Because a kick in that part more
Hurts honour than deep wounds before.”

Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist

Canto III, line 1065
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“Have you ever tasted stale popcorn? The only thing worse is stale vision. If a ministry loses the vision, it's only a matter of time before they lose what made them special in the first place. Without vision, the people will quickly lose it.”

Craig Groeschel (1967) American priest

It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)

“When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 51
Context: Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.

“I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.”

Jerry Pournelle (1933–2017) American science fiction writer and journalist

Commonly seen with the attribution "Jerry Pournelle, an absurd notion, apparently about the BIX BBS"
Clarified in a reply to reader email http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2view/view402.html#Saturday in Chaos Manor View 402, February 20-26, 2006
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“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do — and they don’t. They have prejudices.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

The Paris Review interview (2010)

“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”

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