Quotes About Loss

They should have a slot game called Sucker. You get a row of five suckers and the machine kicks you in the nuts and swallows all the coins in your tray.

me, "Dickie Johnson and I were born together, grew up together, had lots of women together, and got old together, but he died before me.

Me, Mia. Mama mia, Mia. Otis is rigor mortis.

Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

I was very depressed in those months, because it's not funny to lose both your feet when you're thirty years old.

after all that I had read during the night. Even into this quiet place the war had reached like the tentacle of an octopus and had touched this girl and brought about her death. Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.

And then, Monsieur votre fils, he was well too? Well, they had to know. He turned away from her blindly. 'Madame,' he said, 'mon fils est mort. Il est tombé de son avion, au-dessus de Heligoland Bight.

It was her dog getting killed that put the lid on it," said Viola, seven years later. "Funny, that, wasn't it? She stood up quite well when your brother got killed and when her father got killed, but when the dog got killed it finished her. I suppose she felt responsible or something." "I suppose she did," I said. "What happened after

Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Buried Giant.

But above all he must refrain from seizing the property of others, because a man is quicker to forget the death of his father than the loss of his patrimony.

Nothing consumes itself so much as generosity, because while you practise it you're losing the wherewithal to go on practising it.

do not let our princes accuse fortune for the loss of their principalities after so many years' possession, but rather their own sloth, because in quiet times they never thought there could be a change (it is a common defect in man not to make any provision in the calm against the tempest), and

Os homens se esquecem com maior rapidez da morte de um pai que da perda de um patrimônio.

Ludzie pr?dzej puszczaj? w niepami?? ?mier? ojca ni? strat? ojcowizny

Men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must fall with the greatest loss

for even whilst you exercise it you lose the power to do so, and so become either poor or despised, or else, in avoiding poverty, rapacious and hated.

los hombres olvidan más pronto la muerte de su padre que la pérdida de su patrimonio.

In exemplis ci sono li Spartani e li Romani. Li Spartani tennono Atene e Tebe creandovi uno stato di pochi; tamen le riperderono. Romani, per tenere Capua Cartagine e Numanzia, le disfeciono, e non le perderono

It should have been so sweet," Frank Cullotta said. "Everything was in place. We were given paradise on earth, but we fucked it all up." It would be the last time street guys were ever given anything that valuable again.

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.

I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response.

I lost you once, I think I can do it again.

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.