Abuse Power Quietly

Ache In The Rain

Almost Touch

Answer With Their Absence

Arrive Before Their Explanation

Arrive Before They Are Understood

Break In Customer Service

Burn Like Water

Cancel You

Challenge Identity

Close A Door

Close Around A Pearl

Come Back Wrong

Echo In An Empty House

Euphemize

Expand In An Empty One

Fail Quietly

Feel Distant Too Soon

Feel Hard

Feel Inevitable

Feel Like A Punch

Feel Like Progress

Feel Like Regression

Feel Paper Thin

Feel Secondhand

Feel Underbaked

Feel Underripe

Feel Undertime

Flag Red

Fold Back On Themselves

Forget Their Own Name

Forgive By Forgetting

Get Lost

Glow Neon

Go Cold

Go Red And Quiet

Go Wrong In People

Hit Close To Home

Hold The Shape Of The Last Person

Itch Under The Cast

Leave A Mark

Leave A Scar

Leave The Ground

Leave You Breathless

Mirror Too Close

Never Use The Same Voice Twice

Only Happen For Money

Poison Slowly

Promise Forever

Publish Too Late

Reject You Softly

Rewrite The Room

Ring Like Glass

Ring Like Metal

Ring Like Milk

Ring Like Morning

Ring Like Rust

Ring Like Silence

Ring Like Smoke

Ring On A Landline

Sabotage The Self

Show Up At A Funeral

Silence The Music

Sing From The Deep

Smell Like Mildew

Smell Like Milk

Smell Like Summer

Sound Like Lint

Sound Like Mildew

Sound Like Static

Sound Like Vinegar

Spill From A Goldfish Bowl

Spin The Wrong Way

Spread Unnoticed

Stick Like Dust

Stick Like Metal

Stick Like Milk

Stick Like Rain

Stick Like Rust

Stick Like Salt

Stick Like Wood

Sting Without Warning

Swallow The Light

Taste Like Wire

Teach You Philosophy

Thin At The Edges

Tick Without Touching

Turn Bitter

Wait In The Other Chair

Wait Under The Surface

Weigh Like Ash

Weigh Like Mildew

Weigh Like Milk

Weigh Like Sugar

Weigh Like Wire

Whitewash Without Painting

Win And Still Hurt

Things You Only Notice When They're Gone

loss

is a privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he 'lost his election'.

LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he 'lost his election'.

 lacks any relation to material benefits such as power or growth. It goes against the impulse to dress the positive value of loss in a round-about fashion as a gain.

If we stop looking at states of ardor as simply preliminary to other and subsequent conditions grasped as beneficial, the state I propose seems a pure play of lightning, merely an empty consummation. Lacking any relation to material benefits such as power or the growth of the state (or of God or a Church or a party), this consuming can't even be comprehended. It appears that the positive value of loss can only be given as gain.' (Bataille 'on nietzsche' 10)

, more than anything else, teaches us about the worth of things.

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. Arthur Schopenhauer

is integral to love. The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. Gilbert K. Chesterton

is not always bad. There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

is wholly paradoxical, at once enormous and tiny.

Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny. Meghan O'Rourke

is a condition that adds value. Anything one loses automatically doubles in value.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

is sometimes easier to accommodate than to overcome. This is why the Necropolis of Love houses not just bodies but also minds and spirits.

Sometimes, you know, it is easier to accommodate loss than to overcome it: the Necropolis of Love houses not just bodies but also minds and spirits.

loss, n.All

loss