Quotes About Loss

Regardless of sex, everyone loses something in a war... but the first casualty is always the truth.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

Here's the thing about miscarriage. They are painful, they are horrific, and they are very, very common. There are no funerals for Those Who Might Have Been, leaving parents to mourn their loss in strange and unexpected ways. But while a miscarriage may feel like the end of the world... it's actually just the beginning of a new one.

Have you ever been shot by one? Because I have and it hurt like the day my dog died...

Granny would never love anyone the way she loved my grandfather, but that doesn't mean she never loved again.

The next morning, they cremated my grandfather in the belly of our ship. I still have a scarp of the outfit he made for me. These days, I use it as a bookmark.

They say it's the worst pain imaginable, losing a child. But that wasn't my experience. Don't get me wrong, my son's death just about destroyed me. But if I'm being honest, nothing will ever hurt quite so deeply as the moment I heard the first person I ever really loved was gone.

The only way the dead live on is through the people they leave behind.

You remind me of my late sister, little one. As I once told her, the headstrong may win many battles... but only the strong of heart will survive the war.

That's the thing with the dead, they get to say nothing, forever.

EVERYTHING given in this life is given as a gift. When it's gone, it's a good memory to be grateful for. It was never really yours.

Well, come to think of it, if we lose a job, we lose our sense of identity. That's one of the reasons many people get very disillusioned when they retire. They seem to lose their sense of purpose. Suddenly, there is nothing to do, no place to be, no one to need you or value you," he explained.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

Kearny had probably seen more fighting than any man on the field. He had served in Mexico as a cavalry captain; had remarked, in youthful enthusiasm, that he would give an arm to lead a cavalry charge against the foe. He got his wish, at the exact price offered, a few days later, leading a wild gallop with flashing sabers and losing his left arm. He once told his servant: "Never lose an arm; it makes it too hard to put on a glove.

the ruin of the South, by the emancipation of her slaves, is not like the ruin of any other people. It is not a mere loss of liberty Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but it is the loss of liberty, property, home, country—everything that makes life worth having."7

war is tragedy, it is better to live than to die, young men who go down to dusty death in battle have been horribly tricked.

I knew Pop would get me out of the coffin. But I had feeling when he did I might wish I was back inside it again.

What happened after my best friend left is that I couldn't make friends anymore, or I could make them but I couldn't enjoy them, I couldn't relate to them.

She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.

And when people die, it's so wonderful that they never come back to tell you.

Murió mi eternidad y estoy velándola.

And, having killed him (Abhimanyu), your people danced round his dead body like savage hunters exulting over their prey. All good men in the army were grieved and tears rolled from their eyes. Even the birds of prey, that circled overhead making noises seemed to cry 'Not thus! Not thus!

Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.

It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.