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Quotes About Loss

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.
~ Gustav Mahler
A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.
~ Alexander Woollcott
The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win
~ Charles Spurgeon
Men fear to lose as much as they hope to gain.
~ Drayton Bird
I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.
~ Fritz Kreisler
Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
~ Langston Hughes
We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.
~ Ray Bradbury
Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.
~ Robert Breault
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
~ Saint Augustine
There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.
~ Antoine Rivarol
We have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.
~ Benjamin W. Chidlaw
Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.
~ Hank Williams, Jr.
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.
~ Leonard Cohen
A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.
~ Gene Fowler
Love doesn't die; the men and women do.
~ William Faulkner
We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.
~ Homer
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.
~ L. Frank Baum
When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.
~ Len Deighton
Since my fried left me,I've got nothing to do but walking.I walk to forget.I walk,I escape,I get further.My friend will not come back,now I am a marathon man.
~ Shel Silverstein
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
~ Thomas Mann
Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
~ William Butler Yeats