Quotes About Loss

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.

There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

PSH - I am genuinely shocked, saddened and speechless. A truly wonderful man, with a magical touch. My hero. Thoughts are with his family

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

Two days later a Scout simply disappeared without explanation, possibly the victim of a micrometeoroid, or even of suicide.

When the gangplanks are drawn in from the stone edge of the Bund, they are cut off from a whole world that they'll never see again, a world where they were kings. Now they are Marines again.