John Berger Quotes about Loss

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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

John Berger

Grief, Loss, Childhood

John Berger (2011). “A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor”, p.122, Vintage

Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.

John Berger

Loss, Space, Together

John Berger (2011). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos”, p.96, Vintage