No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.
~Rabih Alameddine
No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.
~Rabih Alameddine
This reminds me of the line in Whittier’s poem “Maud Muller”:
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.
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Right! 👍😊
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Yeah it’s so true.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Happy friendship day dear..
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Oh! Same here, Elly! 😃
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Oh, You hurt me with this one, My Dear!! You must hear my heart at night!
xoxo
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It did hurt me, too… 💔
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