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Quotes About Loss

The one who does not risk anything does not gain nor lose.
~ Unknown
I no longer own my own mind. I don't even own my thoughts. After all I've done, finally there is nothing left. I am a man with no future.
~ Viktor Schauberger
Here is why:  The Brest "Peace" meant millions of Russian soldiers were needed no longer.
~ Unknown
Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
~ Ville Valo
Nunca fui covarde Mas agora é tarde Amei tanto Que agora nem sei mais chorar Vivi te buscando Vivi te encontrando Vivi te perdendo Ah, coração, infeliz até quando? Para ser feliz Tu vais morrer de dor Amei tanto Que agora nem sei mais chorar Nunca fui covarde Mas agora é tarde É tarde demais enfim A solidão é o fim de quem ama A chama se esvai, a noite cai em mim.
~ Vinicius de Moraes
I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
~ Vince Gill
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
oy where did my ear go?
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Podemos viver, muito ou pouco, mas sempre haverá momentos em que perderemos a cabeça.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Still, I went with Vincent a few times to listen to a Wagner concert before he left, and we both liked it very much. It still seems strange that he has gone, he has lately meant so much to me.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Maybe I didn't know her as well as I might have wanted. But I can tell you this: love mattered a great deal to Scarlet Montana. I think it must have mattered to Jake too. Because if love hadn't been important to them, they wouldn't have fallen to pieces when it suddenly abandoned them.
~ Unknown
I screamed without making a sound. I sobbed without shedding a tear. I died, though my heart beat on.
~ Unknown
couldn't get to them in time. It was just too hot. Your mother . . . I warned her about smoking in bed. I told her what would happen." "Did Mom start the fire? Did she burn my brothers?" "She didn't mean to start it, Reece," he cries. "But now she's killed them all.
~ Unknown
Les morts font de ceux qui restent des fabricateurs de récits.
~ Unknown
In their emancipation women are losing what has always made them emotionally superior to men, their tenderness and essential warmth of heart. It's happening, Jill girl. And men are getting so they don't care, and when that attitude comes to full flower we'll maybe have another Roman holiday on our hands, and another age of glory lost under a pall of ashes—
~ Violet Winspear
Time bears away all things, even our minds.
~ Virgil
Unspeakable, O Queen, is the sorrow you bid me renew.
~ Virgil
Age steals away all things, even the mind.
~ Virgil
Age carries all things away, even the mind.
~ Virgil
We have been Trojans; Troy has been.
~ Virgil
tu dormi dragostea mea. sînt singur am inventat poezia si nu mai am inima
~ Unknown
So many worthless people relying on French protection are enabled to sin against me with impunity, and nobody now feels that he has any duties toward me; everybody does as he pleases and is actuated by base and selfish motives. I have thus lost more than two-thirds of a fortune that was never very considerable. That is hard, but harder than everything else is my present condition.
~ Unknown
my own instinctive feeling is that you do not work through bereavement. It works through you. It is the passivity that's involved in bereavement, the feeling that something terrible is being done to you – which it is – that is the most frightening.
~ Unknown