Quotes About Loss

There is a moment when all hope disappears, all pride is gone, all expectations, all faith, all desire.

Manchmal kommen Menschen nicht zurück. Deshalb sollte man immer darauf achten, sich richtig zu verabschieden.

Wealth lost, something lost; Honor lost, much lost; Courage lost, all lost. German proverb

People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Losing a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows hope.

Green's first victim was found on the North York Moors, which is why the papers called him the 'Beast of Whitby'. He went on to rape and kill at least two more children, one of whom he lured into his van using kittens that he'd collected from a local animal shelter. He pleaded guilty to the murders, but died within a year, beaten to death in a prison exercise yard

Wealth lost, something lost; Honour lost, much lost; Courage lost, all lost.

She died early the next morning, her hand in mine, as the sun flooded through her window and the light in those luminous eyes of hers faded away forever.

I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.

Saracen The Knight: There will be a cost. Saint-Germain: Anything. I will pay anything to get my wife back. Saracen: Even your immortality? Saint-Germain: Even that. What's the point in living forever, when it is not with the woman I love?

it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.

Longstreet stayed up talking, as long as there was company, as long as there was a fire. Because when the fire was gone and the dark had truly come there was no way he could avoid the dead faces of his children.

Behavioural economists have demonstrated experimentally that in order to get someone to take a gamble or to risk an investment, the potential pay-off must be about twice the potential loss. To get a person to toss a coin to win or lose $10 (students), or $10,000 (wealthy executives), the pay-off has to be greater than or equal to $20, or $20,000.

We are more willing to invest in defending what is already ours than we are to take what is someone else's, because the motivation to avoid losing what we already have is greater than the motivation of gaining what we don't yet have.

At the same time, I had a deep sense of loss: all that time in the deployment army. All that wasted potential. The wasted humanity! Using people as if they were bots. Disrupting lives, families, sleep patterns...it was all such a waste.

No one ever tells you that when your heart breaks, you can feel it. But you can. It feels like something has crumbled inside you and the pieces are falling into your stomach. It hurts more than any punch ever could. You stop breathing, and for a while you can't remember how. When you finally do, it feels like your throat has closed up, like you're trying to suck air through a straw.

So much for Heather's first time," Sadie said in her normal voice. "She died a virgin. How sad.

Keep down your losses—never let them get away from you. Let your profits take care of themselves.'"6

War does not determine who is right, but who is left." —old military proverb Caledonia

War does not determine who is right. War determines who is left.

It doesn't upset me to think about dying. What upsets me is the idea of John being alone after his spell passes. The idea of one of us without the other. (p.127)

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

Dans une guerre il n'y a ni vainqueurs ni vaincus: rien que des victimes.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

Durante la primera parte de tu vida,no te das cuenta de tu felicidad hasta que la has perdido.Luego llega una edad, una segunda edad, en que sabes, en cuanto empiezas a vivir algo feliz, que acabaràs perdièndolo.