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Quotes About Loss

Não ignoro que muitos outros não olham estas espécies de desgraças senão como uma simples perda de um bem, e que assim pensando eles se julgam grandes homens e homens sábios. De minha parte, não sei se são tão grandes e tão sábios como o imaginam, mas sei bem que não são homens.
~ Pliny the Younger
Fate is often like a canoe after you've lost your paddles.
~ Poe Ballantine
Voy a tener que irme a un planeta sin aire. Porque eres el aire. Eres el aire. Eres el aire. Y el agua. Y los jazmines. Y mi sombra. Y mi canto. ¡Vete! ¿No te han dicho, acaso, que los muertos no regresan? Nunca regresan. Nunca regresan. Nunca regresan.
~ Poldy Bird
Fortune is a giver and a taker.
~ Polish Proverb
You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.
~ Polly Horvath
Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.
~ Polly Horvath
I left parts of myself some places and found others unexpectedly. New people appeared on the scene and others disappeared before I had a chance to say goodbye. All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.
~ Polly Horvath
I think that it is death alone that makes things poignant.
~ Polly Horvath
Did you get it back?" "Of coarse, the very next day. And even if I hadn't-because there have been things I've been asked to give up for good... Well, over the years here I've learned that sometimes a great loss is also a great gain." Under the slowly swirling freckles, Doc's face looked infinitely sad. Somehow I didn't find that reassuring.
~ Polly Shulman
Ill is it when good folk die.' 'Why, if they were good you need not mourn for them,' said Skafloc glibly, 'for they are safe from this world's sorrows, come home to Him above. I should think, in truth, that only the sound of your weeping could trouble their bliss.
~ Poul Anderson
What else is life but always bidding farewell?
~ Poul Anderson
Cuando la vida se pierde, solo queda, para vosotros y vuestros hijos, lo que de vosotros se dice.
~ Poul Anderson
Ibu bapak tani—ibu bapak tanah air—akan meratapi putera-puterinya yang terkubur dalam udara terbuka di atas rumput hijau, di bawah naungan langit biru di mana awan putih berarak dan angin bersuling di rumpun bambu. Kemudian tinggallah tulang belulang putih yang bercerita pada musafir lalu, " Di sini pernah terjadi pertempuran. Dan aku mati di sini.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Biasa: harta dengan kejamnya telah memisahkan ibu dari anak.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Begitulah, Ann, upacara sederhana bagaimana seorang anak telah dijual oleh ayahnya sendiri, jurutulis Sastrotomo. Yang dijual adalah diriku; Sanikem. Sejak detik itu hilang sama sekali penghargaan dan hormatku pada ayahku; pada siapa saja yang dalam hidupnya pernah menjual anaknya sendiri. Untuk tujuan dan maksud apapun.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
We should know that the degradation of a nation always comes from division, which results in the loss of the country's reputation.
~ President Pierre Nkurunziza
If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words they're gone. They'll come back.
~ Prince
The bastards murdered half my family. (on being asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union)
~ Prince Phillip
Allowances cut from their salary will be recovered indirectly by them from the public's pocket only so they will not lose anything.
~ Probarb
Magnanimity is the first thing people lose once they get the power.
~ Prof.Salam Al Shereida
Painful recollections are always of the dead. And the dead decompose rapidly, and there remains even in the proximity of their tombs nothing but the beauty of nature, silence, the purity of air.
~ Proust, Marcel
All things grow with time - except grief.
~ Proverb
Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief
~ Proverb
In a bet there is a fool and a thief.
~ Proverb