Quotes About Loss

Con quale velocità, pensò l'ingegnere, la natura si riprende ciò che ha dovuto cedere: pioggia e gelo sbriciolano la muratura, le strade sono sepolte da strati verdi di erbaccia, gli acquedotti sono ostruiti dalla stessa acqua per portare la quale sono stati costruiti. Quella della civiltà è un'incessante guerra che l'uomo è destinato a perdere.

Once in a lifetime You get to have it all But you never knew you had it Till you go and lose it all.

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long.

Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara

She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.

It has been quite a weight, hasn't it? Tam asked. What weight? Rand replied. That lost hand you've been carrying. Rand looked down at his stump. Yes. I believe it has been at that.

Mashiara. Beloved of heart and soul, it meant, but a love lost, too. Lost beyond regaining.

We should ask our commanders... Elayne trailed off. If there are any we trust not to be under Compulsion. There's only one, Mat said grimly, meeting her eyes. And he's telling you we are finished if we continue as we have. The earlier plan was a good enough one, but after what we lost today...Elayne, we're dead unless we choose one place to stand, gather together, and fight. One last toss of the dice.

Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us of what we had lost. There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious. We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.

Actually, I figured out how to lose bloody ages ago. -Mat

I would burn the world and use my soul for tinder to hear her laugh again.  

The Amyrlin Seat has fallen, a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!

We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.

Behind him, Birgitte Silverbow stood over her corpse, one foot to either side of the headless body.

What I love, I destroy, Lews Therin laughed. What I destroy, I love.

My love is gone, carried away, by the wind that shakes the willow, and all the land is beaten hard, by the wind that shakes the willow. But I will hold her close to me in heart and dearest memory, and with her strength to steel my soul, her love to warm my heart-strings, I will stand where we once sang, though cold wind shakes the willow.

Weep for Manetheren. Weep for what is lost forever.

Who we were is lost to all men, and life is bitter.

Not a tree of it left. I've been to Tear and Illian, too. Different names, and no memories. There's only pasture for their horses where the grove was at Tear, and at Illian the grove is the King's park, where he hunts his deer, and none allowed inside without his permission. It has all changed, Rand. I fear very much that I will find the same everywhere I go. All the groves gone, all the memories gone, all the dreams dead.

It should, Daigian said. Eben is dead. Would you want to forget your pain if you lost that hulking giant of yours? Have your feelings for him cutaway like some spoiled chunk of flesh in an otherwise good roast? Nynaeve opened her mouth but stopped. Would she? It wasn't that simple—her feelings for Lan were genuine, and not due to a bond. He was her husband, and she loved him.

A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom." Lini had been full of sayings like that.

Perhaps I also dwell too much on what is gone. And yet, the groves were beautiful.