Quotes About Loss

And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to lose but lost and have to remember

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've left him.

They'd already taken her from me once. I didn't want to lose her again.

Because it's still a heartache. And nothing makes you want to die more than that.

Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later.

You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not going to get to see them anymore.

Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.

Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever.

The curse of cyberspace is that everything we want to preserve will get lost and everything we want to lose will be preserved.

The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted.

When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

Killing is the payoff of war.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left