“For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.”

“Trash is something you get rid of—or disease. I'm not something you get rid of.”

Lana Turner (1921–1995) American actress

“I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

“I shot you, all right," he said, "and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too."

What?"

I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.”

Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist

“In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

“Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”

Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) British writer and philosopher