Quotes About Loss

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

Love can be a very frightening thing." "That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

Six people were thinking of Rosemary Barton who had died nearly a year ago...

I don't want to write about it at all. I want, you see, to think about it as little as possible. Hercule Poirot was dead - and with him died a good part of Arthur Hastings.

If you've lost, you've lost.

Such a sweet letter from Lady Conway... You remember my telling you about her? Her memory's bad. Can't recognize her relations always and tells them to go away." "That might be shrewdness really," said Miss Marple, "rather than a loss of memory.

I don't particularly want to think of your funeral because I'd much prefer to die before you do. But I mean, if I were going to your funeral, at any rate it would be an orgy of grief. I should take a lot of handkerchiefs.

If I were dead, the first thing you'd do, with the tears streaming down your face, would be to start modelling some damned mourning woman or some figure of grief.

Sitting here, literally amongst the dead, reckoning up gains and losses, casting accounts, I have come to see gains that cannot be reckoned in terms of wealth, and losses that are more damaging than loss of a crop... I look at the River and I see the lifeblood of Egypt that has existed before we lived and that will exist after we die... Life and death, Renisenb, are not of such great account.

when anything beautiful's dead, it's a loss to the world.

L'amour, it causes many fatalities, does it not?

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

Funerals are absolutely fatal for a man of your age.

The hearse is at the door, sir.

Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased.

La vida se nos antoja más llena de interés cuando estamos a punto de perderla.

Nothing is so sad, in my opinion, as the devastation wrought by age.

Mrs. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September—a Thursday. I was sent for at eight o'clock on the morning of Friday the 17th. There was nothing to be done. She had been dead some hours.

Cher ami!" Poirot had said to me as I left the room. They were the last words I was ever to hear him say. For when Curtiss came to attend to his master he found that master dead.

And when anything beautiful's dead, it's a loss to the world.

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. I have nephews and nieces and kind friends---but there's no one who knew me as a young girl---non one who belongs to the old days. I've been alone for quite a long time now.