“The loss of a thing affects us until we have lost it altogether.”
La pérdida de una cosa nos afecta hasta hasta no perderla toda.
Voces (1943)
On aboriginal lore in “The interview: Melissa Lucashenko” https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/the-interview-melissa-lucashenko-20130306-2flr6.html in The Sydney Morning Herald (2013 Mar 9)
“The loss of a thing affects us until we have lost it altogether.”
La pérdida de una cosa nos afecta hasta hasta no perderla toda.
Voces (1943)
“You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.”
Source: Sing You Home
“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.”
Source: Margaret Ogilvy (1897), Ch. 8
Guest speech to the conference of the Fiji Labour Party, Lautoka, 30 July 2005
Source: Dark Age Ahead (2004), Chapter One, The Hazard, p. 3
Context: This is both a gloomy and a hopeful book.
The subject itself is gloomy. A Dark Age is a culture's dead end. We in North America and Western Europe, enjoying the many benefits of the culture conventionally known as the West, customarily think of a Dark Age as happening once, long ago, following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. But in North America we live in a graveyard of lost aboriginal cultures, many of which were decisively finished off by mass amnesia in which even the memory of what was lost was also lost. Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.
Mona Sahlin in a speech to the Turkish youth organization Euroturk, March, 2002 http://turkiskaungdomsforbundet.blogspot.com/2010/11/euroturk-pa-natet.html
1820s, Signs of the Times (1829)