Death is not the greatest fear. Neither is loss. Living is.

—Joel Peckham

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About Joel Peckham

Joel B. Peckham, Jr. is an American poet, scholar of American literature and a creative writer.

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I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a part of you is no longer whole. Some will never again love with that level of abandon where life is perceived as innocent and the threat of loss seems implausible.

—Donna Lynn Hope

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If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

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The world is full of hundreds of beautiful things we can never possibly have time to discover, and there is no time to be unkind or envious or ungenerous, and no sense in enslaving the mind to the trivialities of the moment. For you can be equal to the greatness of life only by marching with it; not by seeking love but by giving it, nor seeking to be understood but learning to understand. And when it is all over, there will be an agony of remorse because one spared the effort and did not make more of that little span of opportunity; and knowing reality at last, who knows but that one will look back with unassuageable regret upon one's pitiful little faith.

—Vivienne de Watteville

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

—Laurence J. Peter

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Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? She would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper

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