Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

We don't realize how much we need something until it's taken away from us.

I never take my things for granted, or the things I've been granted will get taken away.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

you dont know what you got till its gone

It is not customary to love what one has.

It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.

You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.

Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.

We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.

Sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

You'll never miss the water 'til the well runs dry.

People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.