“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
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“The past was gone, after all, and the future was the only thing they had left.”
Amanda Collier Ridley, Chapter 12, p. 180
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“Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.”
Source: The House of the Spirits
“There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.”
Source: Let the Great World Spin
No Coward Soul Is Mine (1846)
Context: p>With wide-embracing love
Thy Spirit animates eternal years,
Pervades and broods above,
Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears.Though earth and moon were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,
And Thou wert left alone,
Every existence would exist in Thee. There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou — Thou art Being and Breath,
And what Thou art may never be destroyed.</p
“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”
Source: The Powerbook